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Abstract
Total loss of vision in all or part of the visual field due to bilateral OCCIPITAL LOBE (i.e., VISUAL CORTEX) damage or dysfunction. Anton syndrome is characterized by the psychic denial of true, organic cortical blindness. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p460)
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- Blindness, Cortical
- Anton Syndrome
- Anton's Syndrome
- Anton-Babinski Syndrome
- Blindness, Cortical, Post-Ictal
- Blindness, Cortical, Transient
- Psychic Denial of Blindness
- Reversible Cortical Blindness
- Transient Anton's Syndrome
- Anton Babinski Syndrome
- Anton's Syndrome, Transient
- Antons Syndrome
- Blindness, Reversible Cortical
- Blindnesses, Reversible Cortical
- Cortical Blindness, Reversible
- Cortical Blindnesses, Reversible
- Reversible Cortical Blindnesses
- Syndrome, Anton
- Syndrome, Anton's
- Syndrome, Anton-Babinski
- Syndrome, Transient Anton's
- Transient Anton Syndrome
- Transient Antons Syndrome
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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1998
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- Blindness (1966-1997)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Cortical Blindness. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D019575. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D019575
- Cortical Blindness. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_blindness
- Cortical Blindness. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q895871