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In 1907, Rezsö Bálint (1874-1929), a young Hungarian physician, recorded observations he had made on a patient who suffered from a remarkable constellation of symptoms--fixation of gaze, neglect of objects in the visual surround, and misreaching--following damage to the posterior parietal lobes. Although Bálint's syndrome, the name now given to these disorders of attention and visuomotor control, is well established in the neurologic literature, there remain problems of interpretation. Bálint's own attempts to understand exactly what was wrong with his patient offer a unique insight into the nature of neurologic thought at the beginning of this century.

Original publication

DOI

10.1001/archneur.1988.00520250095029

Type

Journal article

Journal

Arch Neurol

Publication Date

01/1988

Volume

45

Pages

89 - 93

Keywords

Brain Diseases, Fixation, Ocular, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century, Hungary, Neurology, Nystagmus, Pathologic, Parietal Lobe, Syndrome, Visual Perception