Balint syndrome: a case of simultanagnosia.
We describe a patient with a bilateral posterior lesion, who showed optic ataxia, gaze apraxia and the symptom which most authors call the inability to see more than one thing at a time. We discuss the last feature and the term simultanagnosia sometimes used to indicate it. Furthermore we stress the unusual localization of the lesion in this patient.
D000368:Aged; D000377:Agnosia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D001072:Apraxias / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005133:Eye Movements; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000098:blood supply; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000098:blood supply; D013577:Syndrome; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000098:blood supply; D014796:Visual Perception