Akinetopsia as epileptic seizure
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Akinetopsia as epileptic seizure☆
Akinetopsia is a rare syndrome in which a patient specifically loses the ability to perceive visual motion following bilateral cortical lesions outside the striate cortex. We describe a patient who showed akinetopsia recurrently as epileptic seizures. The patient was a 61-year-old man. At age 46, a cerebral arteriovenous malformation in the right parietal lobe was discovered. At age 58, he bega...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epilepsy & Behavior Case Reports
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2213-3232
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebcr.2013.04.002