The anatomy of cerebral achromatopsia: A reappraisal and comparison of two case reports

Cortex

Volumn 56, Issue , 2014, Pages 138-144

  Bartolomeo, Paolo ^a,b   Bachoud Lévi, Anne Catherine ^c,d,e,f   Thiebaut de Schotten, Michel ^a,g  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^c INSERM U955   (France)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^e FACULTÉ DE MÉDECINE   (France)

^f HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^g KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Achromatopsia; Brain damage; Color processing; Occipital lobe; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALEXIA WITHOUT AGRAPHIA; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLOR BLINDNESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HEADACHE; HEMIPLEGIA; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OPTIC TRACT; PERIMETRY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCOTOMA; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VERTIGO; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD; VOMITING; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN INFARCTION; COLOR VISION; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; COMPLICATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBLICATION;

AGED; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; TRANSLATIONS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84902159051     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.01.013     Document Type: Article

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