(1) A neuropsychological study of 21 patients with senile dementia demonstrated that a lesion of these brain structures may correspond to dynamical apraxia, visual agnosis and a disturbance of bimanuel reciprocal coordination.
Gnosis
Definition:
(n.) The deeper wisdom; knowledge of spiritual truth, such as was claimed by the Gnostics.
Example Sentences:
(1) Revascularization of fingers injured by a ring avulsion, and restoration of tactile gnosis with esthetic coverage make salvage of the valued ulnar fingers feasible.
(2) A fractured shoulder last autumn left Khan unable to complete his previous work, Gnosis , in time for its billed premiere.
(3) To gain access to users' passwords, Gnosis used what is known as a brute force attack.
(4) Conclusion is made about the presence of non-specific changes of visual gnosis in patients with schizophrenia and about involvement of the associative frontal structures in pathologic process.
(5) By the aid of photooptical methods the authors studied eye movements in 6 patients with disorders of visual gnosis due to focal lesions in the occipitallbrain lobes.
(6) It also shows tactile gnosis, necessary for precision sensory grips.
(7) This past Saturday, a group calling itself Gnosis broke into Gawker 's website, obtaining and releasing among other things a database of 1.3 million of the site's users and their email addresses.
(8) Starting with this baseline sensorial organization, there develops in the young child a increasingly complex growth gradient of lingual gnosis and praxis (general oral), starting with the spoon-feeding praxis at about 6 months of age.
(9) A neuropsychological investigation of the main cognitive functions (language, gnosis, praxis, calculation, memory) enables us to specify the characteristics of dementia shown by these patients.
(10) Various modalities of six neuropsychological functions (graphia, calculia, finger gnosis, right-left orientation, praxia and constructive praxia) referred to as parietal or nonverbal have been investigated in the light of speech disorders.
(11) It was found that ring-shaped coils have longer axial effective fields than other coil geometries, probably allowing dia gnosis of more deeply lying processes.
(12) Proceeding from the neuropsychological examination of a patient with an exceptionally selective impairment of auditory gnosis of vascular origin, we make an attempt to analyze structurally the syndrome of auditory agnosia, a study of which has been neglected in comparison with analyses of visual agnosia.
(13) Though the Gnosis correspondent denied any formal link with 4Chan, it is clear that Gawker's sustained and critical coverage of the image board was an important motive for the cyber attack.
(14) -- Tests for tactile gnosis were performed by means of "blindfold" tests.
(15) In contrast to Gnosis's "just for the lulz" attack on Gawker, the Anonymous attacks raise an interesting question for defenders of free speech: do we support the attacks as a form of speech act, or do we support the targets' original right to spread their messages unhindered?
(16) and a relative preservation of specific functions (speech, praxis, gnosis).
(17) This review one to eleven years later was mainly to determine if reorientation of the cortical representation of stimuli had developed and if tactile gnosis had persisted.
(18) Gnosis are unrelated to the thousand-strong group, known as Anonymous, which last week crippled the websites of a number of companies that cut ties with WikiLeaks following the release of confidential US diplomatic documents.
(19) A group calling itself Gnosis claimed responsibility for the attack, apparently in response to a series of disparaging Gawker blogposts about the internet messageboard 4Chan.
(20) The pair devised the name Hipgnosis, the partnership that they had started in 1967, by combining "hip" with the Greek word "gnosis", meaning "learning".