Balint’s Syndrome

Diagnosis:

This is a clinical diagnosis

Clinical features:

Ocular apraxia/ sticky fixation: the inability to move the eyes volitionally
Optic ataxia: inability to reach for a target under visual guidance in the absence of primary visual deficits, patients are able to reach under auditory guidance.
Simultinagnosia

Investigations to consider:

MRI: bilateral parietooccipital lesions
Consider testing for CJD

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