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Anton-Babinski syndrome — Anton Babinski syndrome, more frequently known as Anton s blindness, is a rare symptom of brain damage occurring in the occipital lobe. People who suffer from it are cortically blind, but affirm, often quite adamantly and in the face of clear… … Wikipedia
Anton-Babinski syndrome — Also known as Anton s syndrome, Anton s symptom, Anton s blindness, anosognosia for blindness, denial of blindness, and visual anosognosia. The eponym Anton Babinski syndrome refers to the Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist Gabriel Anton… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
Anton syndrome — Anton Babinski syndrome a form of anosognosia in which the patient denies, and often is unaware of, the existence of clinically demonstrable blindness and may resort to confabulation to hide it; it may be the result of denial (q.v.) or of… … Medical dictionary
Cortical blindness — Classification and external resources ICD 10 H47.6 ICD 9 377.75 … Wikipedia
anosognosia for blindness — see Anton Babinski syndrome … Dictionary of Hallucinations
denial of blindness — see Anton Babinski syndrome … Dictionary of Hallucinations
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