Balint’s syndrome—missed or mistaken?

Jacob, Sindhu S.; Jacob, Sony; Albornoz, Anthony M.; Biswas, Debashis

doi:10.1016/s0002-9343(01)01133-0

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“…Given the sparse literature on rehabilitation interventions for patients with Balint's syndrome it is possible that symptoms are being overlooked or misdiagnosed in clinical settings [3]. This is an obvious problem as patient's presenting with this rare syndrome may not receive the appropriate line of rehabilitation services [3,11,55]. Kerkhoff [56] suggested that the small number of patients with acquired central visual disturbance that experience a complete recovery appears to either reflect the limitations of neuronal plasticity or incomplete understanding of an acquired injury such as Balint's syndrome to adequately develop and facilitate effective rehabilitation protocols.…”

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Balint's syndrome and post-acute brain injury rehabilitation: A case report

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“…The literature is sparse on optic ataxia rehabilitation, probably because it is a rare -yet probably overlooked -deficit (Jacob, Jacob, Albornoz, & Biswas, 2002). The objective of a therapy should be the generalization of what has been learned to a variety of contexts, and the rehabilitation method should be to provide compensatory strategies allowing patients to correct their errors (Perez, Tunkel, Lachmann and Nagler, 1996).…”

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Effect of object substitution, spontaneous compensation and repetitive training on reaching movements in a patient with optic ataxia

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Etcharry-Bouyx

Chauviré

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Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

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We report the case of M.B. who demonstrated severe optic ataxia with the right hand following stroke in the left hemisphere. The clinical picture may shed light on both the pathological characteristics of reaching and grasping actions, and potential rehabilitation strategies for optic ataxia. First, M.B. demonstrated a dissociation between severely impaired reaching and relatively spared grasping and tool use skills and knowledge, which confirms that grasping may be more intermingled with non-motoric cognitive mechanisms than reaching. Besides, M.B.'s reaching performance was sensitive to movement repetition. We observed a substitution effect:Reaching time decreased if M.B. repeatedly reached toward the same object but increased when object identity changed. This may imply that not only object localization but also object identity, is integrated into movement programming in reach-to-grasp tasks. Second, studying M.B.'s spontaneous compensation strategies ascertained that the mere repetition of reaching movements had a positive effect, to the point M.B. almost recovered to normal level after an intensive one-day repetitive training session. This case study seems to provide one of the first examples of optic ataxia rehabilitation. Reaching skills can be trained by repetitive training even two years post-stroke and despite the presence of visuo-imitative apraxia. PRINTINGWe recommend printing in black-and-white.

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TOYOKURA²,

Tanaka³

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Jpn J Rehabil Med

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: We report a case of a 39-yr-old man with a bilateral occipito-parietal contusion. After conservative treatment at an emergency hospital, he was transferred to our hospital for rehabilitative intervention. On admission, he presented with mild cortical blindness and visual agnosia. As his visual acuity gradually improved, Bálint s syndrome became apparent. This syndrome is characterized by difficulties with visual scanning, dysmetria secondary to visual perceptual deficits, and an inability to perceive more than one object at a time. After rehabilitative intervention, consisting of both visuo-perceptual retraining and a functional adaptation program, he was able to bathe and toilet independently.

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Balint’s syndrome—missed or mistaken?

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Balint's syndrome and post-acute brain injury rehabilitation: A case report

Balint's syndrome and post-acute brain injury rehabilitation: A case report

Effect of object substitution, spontaneous compensation and repetitive training on reaching movements in a patient with optic ataxia

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