A patient (D.F.) who developed visual form agnosia following carbon monoxide-induced anoxia was assessed on three tests designed to measure her sensitivity to obstacle height in a locomotor task. Although her verbal estimates of the height of the obstacles were correlated with their actual height,
Visual agnosia is a deficit in shape perception, affecting figure, object, face and letter recognition. Agnosia is usually attributed to lesions to high-order modules of the visual system, which combine visual cues to represent the shape of objects. However, most of previously reported agnosia cases
OBJECTIVE
(1) To evaluate cognitive and emotional impairments, disability and quality-of-life for adults with cerebral anoxia institutionalized in residential care facilities. (2) To evaluate the efficacy of medication, psychotherapy, support group and therapeutic activities.
METHODS
Twenty-seven
Inverse ocular bobbing (IOB) is an uncommon abnormal eye movement. Its characteristics are slow downward eye movement with rapid upward return, a nadir at the extreme of downgaze position and horizontal roving eye movement. We present a case of IOB associated with cerebral embolism and diabetes
Following cerebral anoxia, EC a 55-year-old patient, exhibited a severe and clear-cut pattern of semantic impairments without general intellectual deficit or perceptual difficulty. EC demonstrated a complex neuropsychological picture including a massive visual agnosia and a complete lack of imagery,
Cerebral visual impairment is one of the main causes of childhood visual impairment in developed countries. These disorders are often linked with pre- or perinatal hypoxic brain injuries. The patterns of brain injuries depend on the severity and duration of hypoxia and the child's age. In premature
The aim of this study was to investigate periictal central apnea as a seizure semiological feature, its localizing value, and possible relationship with sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) pathomechanisms.
We prospectively studied polygraphic physiological responses, including inductance
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