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- Title
Unusual visual symptoms and Ganser-like state due to cerebral injury: a case study using.
- Authors
Snyder, Stephen L.; Buchsbaum, Monte S.; Krishna, R.C.
- Abstract
Bizarre visual symptoms and absurd verbal responses to questions, in a 32-year-old man recovering from a severe asthma episode, suggested a possible conversion disorder with Ganser-like symptoms. Positron Emission Tomography (PET)revealed bilateral lesions involving occipital association cortex and posterior temporal and parietal lobes, most likely infarcts from hypoxia. PET permitted correlation of the patient's specific cortical lesions with his unusual perceptual, cognitive, and speech symptoms, including Ganser-like state , to a degree not previously possible in such cases.
- Subjects
CONVERSION disorder; TEMPORAL lobe injuries; PARIETAL lobe injuries; HYPOXEMIA; PHYSIOLOGY
- Publication
Behavioural Neurology, 1998, Vol 11, Issue 1, p51
- ISSN
0953-4180
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/1998/907914