Halligan Peter W
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales.
Neuropsychol Rehabil. 2006 Aug;16(4):456-73. doi: 10.1080/09602010500309762.
It has been known for well over a century that brain-damaged patients are often unaware of the very deficits that impair performance in everyday life. Pathologies of awareness have been described for many neurological, psychiatric and neuropsychological deficits and the construct of "awareness" or "insight" understandably now receives attention from many researchers within the clinical and cognitive neurosciences. This paper does not attempt to explain the nature of consciousness or its impairment but rather considers four aspects of consciousness/awareness that health care professionals interested in understanding, measuring and improving deficits of awareness should consider.
一个多世纪以来，人们已经知道，脑损伤患者常常意识不到那些在日常生活中影响其行为表现的缺陷。对于许多神经、精神和神经心理方面的缺陷，都有关于意识障碍的描述，“意识”或“洞察力”这一概念如今受到临床和认知神经科学领域众多研究者的关注，这是可以理解的。本文并不试图解释意识的本质或其损伤，而是探讨意识/觉察的四个方面，这是那些有兴趣理解、测量和改善意识缺陷的医疗保健专业人员应该考虑的。
