[The Balint syndrome].
This paper reports a case of complete form of Bálint syndrome. A 56-year-old male suffered form psychic paralysis of gaze, impaired visual attention and optic ataxia of sudden onset in the basis of sequlae of cerebral vascular disease. CT scans of the present case demonstrated low densities in the left frontal, parietal lobe and right basal ganglia, right parito-occipital lobe. As for possible anatomical substrate of the Balint syndrome. according to Damasio's atlas, the authors inferred that despit the multiplicity of lesions in the present case, prefrontal area, lobulus paritalis inferior gyrus angularis and the associated fibers between the prefrontal area and 18, 19 area of occipital lobe were considered to be most responsible for the production of the Balint syndrome.
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D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D013577:Syndrome; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology