Anton-Babinski syndrome

Anton-Babinski syndrome
An·ton-Ba·bin·ski syndrome (ahnґton bə-binґske) [G. Anton; Joseph Franзois Fйlix Babinski, French physician, 1857–1932] Anton syndrome.

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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's syndrome —    see Anton Babinski syndrome …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

  • Anton-Babinski syndrome — noun A rare symptom of brain damage occurring in the occipital lobe, in which the patient is cortically blind but affirms that he or she is capable of seeing …   Wiktionary

  • 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

  • Anton's blindness —    see Anton Babinski syndrome …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

  • Anton's symptom —    see Anton Babinski syndrome …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

  • Joseph Babinski — Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski (born November 17, 1857, Paris; died October 29, 1932, Paris) was a French neurologist of Polish ethnicity. He is best known for his 1896 description of the Babinski sign, a pathological plantar reflex… …   Wikipedia

  • Gabriel Anton — (July 28, 1858 3 January 1933) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist. He is primarily remembered for his studies of psychiatric conditions arising from damage to the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia.Gabriel Anton was a native of Saaz …   Wikipedia

  • phantom eye syndrome —    The term phantom eye syndrome is indebted to the Greek noun phantasma, which means ghost orspectre.It is used to denote a variant of *phantom limb characterized by the perceived presence, mostly of a painful nature, of an eye that is actually… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

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