Anton's syndrome following callosal disconnection
J Abutalebi1, C Arcari, M A Rocca
1Centre of Cognitive Neuroscience, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy. abutalebi.jubin@hsr.it
Abstract:
Anosognosia for cortical blindness, also called Anton's syndrome, is a rare neurological disorder usually following bilateral lesions to occipital cortices. Neuropsychological, morphological and functional neuroimaging (SPECT and fMRI) findings are reported in a patient who incurred Anton's syndrome after an ischaemic lesion confined to the left occipital lobe involving the corpus callosum. The present case study suggests that Anton's syndrome may also follow from lesions disconnecting the occipital cortices.
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