Lesion is usually in dominant occipital cortex and adjacent temporal and parietal cortex, especially dorsal convexity of the right parietal lobe. It is impaired discrimination of colors in the contralateral hemifield. Hemiachromatopsia is loss of color limited to the contralateral hemifield.
Typically it is asymptomatic until the defect is demonstrated. Hemiachromatopsia is usually associated with a homonymous superior quadrantanopia, and so the color defect is only demonstrable in the lower quadrant. Two rare cases with color defects limited to one quadrant have been described.
It is not clear whether these were true chromatic defects or subtle relative scotomata, but the quadrantic representation of the human V4 area on functional neuroimaging suggests that a quadrantic dyschromatopsia is theoretically possible.
This abnormality is impaired color perception due to an acquired brain lesion. In achromatopsia there is complete absence of color perception. Subjects with achromatopsia complain that everything appears in gray color or its hues, black or white. The lesion is in the V4 region of the brain. Color anomia occurs when a lesion separates the V4 regions of the brain from the language areas. If dyschromatopsia is with superior quadranopsia and prosopagnosia, it is possible that there are lesions in the inferior occipital lobes in both hemisphere.
Hemianopic dyslexia is a frequent and disabling functional impairment following the brain injury. In this form of peripherical dyslexia patients have acquired impairment in reading.
Patients who had homonymous visual field defects have problems about reading in spite of having normal language functions. Palinopsia is an usual visual symptom which lasts typically for several days to a few weeks.
It usually occurs often in focal cerebral lesions involving in the right hemisphere such as cerebral infarct, infection, stroke, trauma, arteriovenous malformation, tumor, parasite, migraine, seizure activity, drug use and as a result of the ictal phenomenon in association with the signs of the parietooccipital and occipital lobes in opposite side. Although it occurs in the lesions of right occipital lobe, its exact etiopathogenesis and lesion region is not known. The appearance of many of the same images while watching a single object is called palinopsia, which is a phenomenon distinct from polyopia.
Akinetopsia motion blindness , a very rare higher visuospatial deficit, is the inability or difficulty in perceiving the motion. In the literature there is only two cases who had akinetopsia because of bilateral damage have been reported. The most well-known process that is involved in depth perception is stereopsis.
Two objects located at different distances from the observer have a different relationship to each other in the retinal image of the right versus the left eye. The power of this depth cue can be appreciated by trying to thread a needle with one eye closed and then with both eyes open.
Loss of stereopsis can occur with bilateral occipitoparietal lesions, and can be demonstrated with common tests of stereovision used in eye clinics, such as the Titmus stereo fly test or Randot Stereo Test, which require the patient to wear polarized glasses and present slightly different images to each eye.
Stereopsis is not the only cue to depth relationships, to which any one-eyed person or painter can attest. Relative size and saturation are strong pictorial cues to distance; moving one's head can give depth cues from optic flow patterns and motion parallax. It is not known whether the cerebral lesions that cause astereopsis also affect the ability of a patient to derive depth from these monocular cues. It may occur as a developmental disorder or acquired disorder following a neurological disease affecting bilateral occipitoparietal lobes.
However, unilateral lesions can cause milder deficits. Astereopsis can be diagnose with stereo tests including some cards with different polarized or colored glasses. Visual neglect refers to the failure of a patient to report, respond, or orient to external visual stimulation or mental images of objects and scenes that are positioned contralateral to the brain lesion, which caused neglect i. Further, the failure is not due to a primary sensory or motor deficit such as hemianopia or paralysis.
This entry describes neglect because of its effects on visual processing, with an emphasis on its assessment, types, spatial dimensions, causes, and treatment. It is important to note that what can be said about visual neglect can also be said about neglect in other sensory modalities. Almost every time left hemifield is affected by neglect.
Because the left hemisphere observes the right hemifield, but the right hemisphere observes both hemifields. A left hemisphere lesion will still allow the right hemisphere to survey the entire visual field, hence neglect does not occur. By contrast, with a right hemisphere lesion, the left hemisphere monitors only the right hemispace; therefore because of the lack of monitoring the left hemispace, left-sided neglect occurs. Visual hallucinations visual gain is a positive phenomenon defined as the perception of a non-existent image by the patient and it is a strong indicator of an organic disease such as the acute confusional state and Lewy body disease.
However, some drugs such as atropine are the most common causes of visual hallucinations. These may be lights, lines, light flashes, or more complex images such as people, animals, figures, or landscapes. Visual hallucinations can occur due to psychophysiologic a disturbance of brain structure , psychobiochemical a disturbance of neurotransmitters , and psychodynamic an emergence of the unconscious into consciousness causes.
Irritating e. Irritation of the primary visual cortex Brodmann's area 17 causes simple elementary visual hallucinations, while irritation of the visual association cortices Brodmann's areas 18 and 19 causes more complex visual hallucinations.
Charles Bonnet syndrome CBS includes nonthreatening hallucinations in patients who have no neurological and no psychological abnormalities. Patients develop vivid visual hallucinations in the absence of psychiatric illness but with significant visual impairment secondary to ocular disease, such as macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.
Because of the fear of a mental illness being diagnosed, patients are often reluctant to discuss these hallucinations. The images tend to be complex animals, people and insight is usually retained.
In the great majority of cases, a decline in visual acuity precedes the development of CBS. Patients may realize that the images are hallucinations, not real by the normal reality tests. These tend to occur in the evenings and to disappear over weeks. The visions are usually reported to be vivid, colorful, and sometimes distorted images of animals and people.
They are typically considered non-threatening by the patient. Visual distortion includes micropsia, macropsia, metamorphopsia and rarely upside-down reversal of vision. In the later, images are seen in fully upside down position for a few seconds to 12hours and it can occur in Wallenberg syndrome, vertebrobasilar ischemia, vertebral artery dissection, following surgery of third ventricle and brainstem lesions.
The objects on the healthy side seem on the defective side. Greek allache: elsewhere and aisthesis: perception. This dysfunction is a rare condition experienced by patients with injury or tumors compressed to temporal or occipital cortex especially in right side or parieto-occipital arteriovenous malformation, occipital calcified cysticercus, occipital infarct, malformation, and Epilepsia partialis continua.
The visual images may also rarely be transposed between the vertical visual hemifields instead of horizontal hemifields. Visual allesthesia is often with palinopsia. Pathophysiology of visual allesthesia still remains unknown. Visual allesthesia usually results from right hemisphere lesions with left-sided neglect or extinction.
Hallucinations from temporal and occipital lesions may be distinguish from visual allesthesia with the association to the parietal localization. Bilateral infarction in the distal PCAs produces cortical blindness blindness with preserved pupillary light reaction. Tiny islands of vision may persist, and the patient may report that vision fluctuates as images are captured in the preserved portions.
Although cerebrovascular disease is the most common cause, surgery, particularly cardiac surgery and cerebral angiography are also major causes. Anton's syndrome describes the condition in which patients deny their blindness despite objective evidence of visual loss, and moreover confabulate to support their stance.
This type of cortical blindness is a rare condition in which both occipital cortex and other cortical regions are affected and patients think that they have sight.
Although the anterior visual tracts are intact, the visual association centres in the occipital cortex may be compromised. In this syndrome patients think, say and behave as they have a sight however they cannot.
Attention to the possibility of the condition is, however, drawn when they walk into walls, fall over furniture and describe objects that are not present. Bilateral occipital brain damage results in blindness; however, patients start to confabulate to fill in the missing sensory input.
Although visual anosognosia is frequently believed to represent cortical phenomenon, it is probably more often caused by parietal white matter injury leading to a disconnection syndrome.
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Seghier ML. These features suggest impaired simultaneous perception. The visual history and premature twin birth are typical of periventricular leukomalacia affecting the occipital white matter.
This was confirmed by MRI scan Figure 4 which shows a subtle white matter signal in both parieto-occipital ventricular areas and mild dilatation of the right lateral ventricle trigone. There is less white matter in the occipital than in the frontal regions. Axial MRI scan showing mild dilatation of the right lateral ventricle associated with an abnormal white matter signal in the parieto-occipital areas, and less white matter in the occipital than in the frontal areas.
KS is eight years old. She first presented with a divergent squint at the age of 20 months, but the clue to her higher visual dysfunction came with the history that as a toddler she consistently tripped over obstacles, including her baby sister.
Even when she is looking down, she is sometimes inaccurate in moving her feet over an irregular surface. She can have difficulty with floor boundaries between linoleum and carpet and tests the boundary with her feet to make sure that there is not a step. She manages well with steps and stairs but she has to hold on to the banister.
Occasionally, she mis-reaches for objects with either hand. She may either reach too near or too far. She has problems handling complex visual scenes. She has difficulty seeing things which are pointed out to her in the distance the further things are away, the more detail there is to see. She has had difficulty finding a toy in a toy box but this is improving and may easily lose an object on a patterned carpet.
She has difficulty in visiting shops and supermarkets because she finds them too crowded and she prefers to avoid them. Educational material has to be simplified because when it is complicated, she can miss out a lot of information.
She can easily lose her way. This applies particularly when she is out and about and she has to be given help and directions on a regular basis. Her MRI scan Figure 5 shows that she has sustained damage to the superior occipital lobes extending into the posterior parietal territory, the origin of which is unknown.
Coronal MRI scan of the posterior parietal area showing bilateral superior periventricular scarring and expansion of the lateral ventricles.
The recognition that KS has these problems has meant that people working with her understand the nature of her problems and are sympathetic to her needs. Educational information is enlarged in order to reduce crowding and is presented sequentially.
Her bedroom is decorated in a plain fashion and there is not a lot of clutter. She is also receiving training in how to find her way around. AC was first seen by us at the age of 6 years. She had been born at term with a normal birth weight. CT of the brain the following month showed areas of low attenuation in the frontal and parietal areas.
As she grew up it became apparent that she was not seeing normally and MRI at the age of 5 years Figure 6 showed loss of occipital cortex and white matter associated with enlargement of the trigone regions of the lateral ventricles. White matter damage was also seen in the parietal and frontal regions. These were thought to be consistent with hypoglycaemic or possibly hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy. Visual field examination reveals both lower visual field loss and left-sided extinction.
She finds slopes and stairs frightening and she moves her feet inaccurately over steps and kerbs. She also reaches for things inaccurately. Complex visual scenes are a problem and she too cannot cope in crowded environments, cannot see things which are pointed out in the distance and cannot find an item on a patterned background.
She does not appear to see things which move quickly. Axial MRI scan showing loss of white matter in the occipital cortex associated with enlargement of the trigone regions of the lateral ventricles. There is also frontal and parietal white matter damage. She does not recognise her mother or other family members and has difficulty recognising shapes, for example she has difficulty differentiating a slipper from a banana, and she has problems getting lost in new environments.
Intermittently she performs like a sighted child when she is in a clear high contrast uncluttered well-known visual environment, and at other times she acts as profoundly visually impaired when in a complex visual scene which she has not previously experienced. She can therefore only tolerate short bursts of working on visual tasks.
Three years later she has learned to read using the look and say method. She chooses to read with a little window in a white mask which she moves across the text. This compensates for her impaired simultaneous perception. She uses her memory for hairstyles to compensate for her inability to recognise faces, and all her friends know to introduce themselves.
Her ability to see things pointed out from the car has improved considerably. In our experience, the most common diagnosis of visual impairment in children to be missed is periventricular leukomalacia.
The lack of periventricular white matter can cause cerebral palsy particularly spastic diplegia , but it can cause visual problems in isolation. A combination of lower visual field impairment, impaired visually guided movement particularly of the lower limbs , difficulty extracting visual information from a complex background in various combinations and in varying degree which may or may not be associated with motor problems, is common but the diagnosis is easily missed.
Additional problems with impaired recognition and a tendency to easily get lost are often associated features. In children with cerebral palsy who can communicate and function socially, the above problems can be apparent in any combination and can be identified.
In more profoundly affected children, however, it is very likely that they have cognitive visual problems in equal measure, but they cannot be identified because they are masked by communication and motor problems. However, it is a logical principle, in the context of the education of such children, to simplify the visual world by having limited visual information in the foreground and a plain background, recognising that simultaneous perception is likely to be limited.
A reflex visual pathway connects the retina to the the superior colliculi and the pulvinar. This subsystem serves the ability to perceive and react to moving targets at a subconscious level. Some children who have profound loss of vision due to occipital pathology and who have cerebral blindness are nevertheless able to react to moving targets. For example a moving spoon brought in from the side where reflex visual perception is arguably more effective , may result in the mouth opening.
Such children who are mobile may be able to navigate successfully. This form of vision has been referred to as blindsight, 29 and the navigational vision has been called travel vision. In conclusion, we take it for granted that we know what we are looking at, that we can find our way around and that our internal percept of the visual world around us provides an accurate three-dimensional map to visually guide all our movements, but when these systems become dysfunctional, profound problems arise.
Impaired recognition of people and objects and difficulty route finding typify the ventral stream temporal lobe disorders, whilst problems extracting focal information from complex visual scenes and disordered visually guided movements are the hallmark of dorsal stream posterior parietal disorders. By recognising the triggers which lead to suspicion of these conditions and their differential diagnoses, and adopting a structured approach to clinical history taking from both patients and their carers accurate diagnoses can be made, and optimal management implemented for both adults and children.
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They may also repeat what they say. Some people develop similar symptoms when they get older or if dementia develops. These symptoms may result from degeneration of the frontal lobe. Different areas of the brain control specific functions.
Consequently, where the brain is damaged determines which function is lost. Storing spatial memories that enable people to orient themselves in space know where they are and to maintain a sense of direction know where they are going.
Certain functions tend to be controlled more by one of the parietal lobes usually the left. It is considered the dominant lobe when it controls language. The other lobe nondominant has other functions, such as enabling people to be aware of how the body relates to the space around it.
Damage to the front part of the parietal lobe on one side causes numbness and impairs sensation on the opposite side of the body. People may have difficulty recognizing objects by touch that is, by their texture and shape. If the middle part is damaged, people cannot tell the right from the left side called right-left disorientation and have problems with calculations and writing. They may have problems sensing where parts of their body are a sense called proprioception. If the nondominant usually right parietal lobe is damaged, people may be unable to do simple skilled tasks, such as combing their hair or dressing—called apraxia Apraxia Apraxia is loss of the ability to do tasks that require remembering patterns or sequences of movements.
People with apraxia cannot remember or do the sequence of movements needed to complete They may also have trouble understanding how objects relate to each other in space. As a result, they may have trouble drawing and constructing things, and they may get lost in their own neighborhood. These people may also ignore the serious nature of their disorder or deny its existence.
They may neglect the side of the body opposite the brain damage usually the left side. Comprehending sounds and images, enabling people to recognize other people and objects and to integrate hearing and speech. In most people, part of the left temporal lobe controls language comprehension. If that part is damaged, memory for words can be drastically impaired, as can the ability to understand language—an impairment called Wernicke receptive aphasia Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is an unusual form of amnesia that combines two disorders: an acute confusional state Wernicke encephalopathy and a type of long-term amnesia called Korsakoff syndrome If certain areas of the right temporal lobe are damaged, memory for sounds and music may be impaired.
As a result, people may have trouble singing. Integrating visual perceptions with the spatial information provided by the adjacent parietal lobes. If both sides of the occipital lobe are damaged, people cannot recognize objects by sight, even though the eyes themselves are functioning normally.
This disorder is called cortical blindness. Some people with cortical blindness are unaware that they cannot see. Instead, they often make up descriptions of what they see called confabulation. This disorder is called Anton syndrome. Seizures that involve the occipital lobe can cause hallucinations involving vision. For example, people may see lines of color when they look in a certain direction. These structures have the following functions:. Receiving and integrating information from many areas of the brain, enabling people to experience and express emotions.
Seizures that result from damage to the temporal lobe area in the limbic lobe usually last only a few minutes. At first, people may not be able to control their feelings or to think clearly.
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