balint syndrome

Bálint syndrome is characterized by:

  • simultanagnosia (inability to perceive more than one object at a time)
  • optic ataxia
  • oculomotor apraxia
  • Pathology

    It typically results from damage to the parieto-occipital regions, and has been associated with :

    History and etymology

    First described by Rezső Bálint (1874–1929), Hungarian neurologist-psychiatrist, in 1909 .

    Siehe auch: