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We describe a patient with a bilateral posterior lesion, who showed optic ataxia, gaze apraxia and the symptom which most authors call the inability to see more than one thing at a time. We discuss the last feature and the term simultanagnosia sometimes used to indicate it. Furthermore we stress the unusual localization of the lesion in this patient.
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Viene descritto il caso di un paziente, portatore di lesioni vascolari bilaterali posteriori, che presentava: atassia ottica, aprassia dello sguardo e il sintomo che molti autori definiscono incapacità a vedere più di uno stimolo per volta. Quest'ultimo disordine e il termine “simultanagnosia” vengono brevemente discussi. Infine viene sottolineata l'inusuale localizzazione delle lesioni cerebrali di questo paziente.
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Berti, A., Papagno, C. & Vallar, G. Balint syndrome: A case of simultanagnosia. Ital J Neuro Sci 7, 261–264 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02230891
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