The enigma of Balint's syndrome: complexity of neural substrates and cognitive deficits

• मुख्य लेखक: Magdalena Chechlacz (auth)
• अन्य लेखक: Glyn Humphreys (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• श्रृंखला: Frontiers Research Topics
• विषय: Neurosciences; posterior cortical atrophy; Balints syndrome; optic ataxia; Posterior parietal cortex; simultanagnosia; ocular apraxia
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Bálint's syndrome is named after the Hungarian physician who first reported a remarkable case of a man with complex visuospatial deficits following bilateral lesions within parietal and occipital cortex (Bálint, 1909). The syndrome has three primary symptoms: simultanagnosia (impaired spatial...