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Corticobasal ganglionic degeneration with Balint's syndrome
1Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, USA. mmendez@UCLA.edu
The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
|September 23, 2000
Abstract:
Corticobasal ganglionic degeneration (CBGD) is a neurodegenerative dementia characterized by asymmetric parkinsonism, ideomotor apraxia, myoclonus, dystonia, and the alien hand syndrome. This report describes a patient with CBGD who developed Balint's syndrome with simultanagnosia, oculomotor apraxia, and optic ataxia.