VISUAL AGNOSIA WITH BILATERAL TEMPORO-OCCIPITAL BRAIN-LESIONS IN A CHILD WITH AUTISTIC DISORDER - A CASE-STUDY

Authors
MOTTRON L MINEAU S DECARIE JC JAMBAQUE I LABRECQUE R PEPIN JP AROICHANE M
Citation
L. Mottron et al., VISUAL AGNOSIA WITH BILATERAL TEMPORO-OCCIPITAL BRAIN-LESIONS IN A CHILD WITH AUTISTIC DISORDER - A CASE-STUDY, Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 39(10), 1997, pp. 699-705
Citations number
58
Categorie Soggetti
Pediatrics,"Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00121622
Volume
39
Issue
10
Year of publication
1997
Pages
699 - 705
Database
ISI
SICI code
0012-1622(1997)39:10<699:VAWBTB>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
A 2-year-old boy meeting the criteria for autistic disorder was diagno sed a years later with a visual agnosia characterised by a combination of certain aspects of associative and apperceptive agnosia. MRI then revealed a severe encephalomalacia of the right temporal lobe and bila teral temporo-occipital areas. This association is discussed in terms of a clinical and aetiological relation between autistic disorder and visual agnosia.