Abstract
The syndrome of unawareness of hemiplegia described by Babinski under the name anosognosia has been shown by Barkman 1 to occur in connection with a lesion of the right thalamus. Von Hagen and Ives 2 recently reported 2 cases in which the syndrome was present and in which autopsy demonstrated a lesion not in the thalamus but so situated as to cut off the connections between the thalamus and the entire cerebral cortex except, perhaps, the occipital pole. In either case it would seem that the lesion was capable of producing both hemiplegia and hemianesthesia. In the case to be reported here the patient, who had hemiplegia with crural dominance from softening of the paracentral lobule, failed to recognize her paralysis owing to a lesion affecting the temporoparietal cortex on the same side. REPORT OF A CASE Schoolteacher, woman, aged 67, with diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension and recent difficulty in
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