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Visual agnosia with bilateral temporo-occipital brain lesions in a child with autistic disorder: a case study
L Mottron1, S Mineau, J C Décarie
1Service de Recherche, Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
|November 14, 1997
Abstract:
A 2-year-old boy meeting the criteria for autistic disorder was diagnosed 2 years later with a visual agnosia characterised by a combination of certain aspects of associative and apperceptive agnosia. MRI then revealed a severe encephalomalacia of the right temporal lobe and bilateral temporo-occipital areas. This association is discussed in terms of a clinical and aetiological relation between autistic disorder and visual agnosia.