Thanks for finding us! We are a cognitive neuroscience research laboratory dedicated to investigate the individuals' inability to orient in an environment, a condition that is commonly known as topographical disorientation or topographagnosia.
We recently discovered that such a condition may occur despite the lack of any apparent brain damage or other cognitive impairments, and result in a lifelong difficulty that may severely affect an individual's daily life. We refer to this very selective difficulty as developmental topographical disorientation since most likely the requisite orientation skills have never been developed.
We believe that many people may be affected by developmental topographical disorientation than currently known. Therefore, we created this website in order to find out more about people having difficulties in orienting, shed more light on this problem and develop rehabilitation treatments that may help people to build up orientation skills.
If you get lost easily and want to find out more about your lack of orientation skills, please explore this website. You will find useful information about how people orient and the research that we have done so far on this topic. Also, you may want to join our forum and meet other people with orientation issues similar to yours. Please visit our page "Test Your Skills" in order to have a complete assessment of your orientation skills. Your contribution is fundamental to our discovering more about this problem and learning how we can help everyone to find their way. Thanks.
Giuseppe Iaria
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