Autotopagnosia

Autotopagnosia

Autotopagnosia is a neurological condition that results in the inability to recognize, name, or point on command to parts of the body. It is often caused by lesions in the upper lateral or lower medial parts of the secondary visual cortex in the left dominant hemisphere and can also result in the failure to distinguish living people from objects.From: Revision Notes in Psychiatry [2019], Neuroanatomical Basis of Clinical Neurology [2019], Basic Notes in Psychiatry [2019]

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Published in Michael Reilly, Bangaru Raju, Extended Matching Items for the MRCPsych Part 1, 2018

Michael Reilly, Bangaru Raju

Agraphognosia.Anosodiaphoria.Anosognosia.Astereognosia.Autotopagnosia.Colour agnosia.Finger agnosia.Hemisomatognosia.Prosopagnosia.Simultanagnosia.

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Published in Fazal-I-Akbar Danish, Essential Lists of Differential Diagnoses for MRCP with diagnostic hints, 2017

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Additional features of non-dominant hemisphere:1 Spatial disorientation (unable to find way around).2 Sensory inattention (perceptual rivalry).273 Anosognosia (unaware of paralysis).4 Autotopagnosia (ignores paralysed side).

Atypical and early symptoms of sporadic Creutzfeldt – Jakob disease: case series and review of the literature

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Published in International Journal of Neuroscience, 2021

Grammatiki Katsikaki, Ioannis E. Dagklis, Petros Angelopoulos, Dimitrios Ntantos, Angeliki Prevezianou, Sevasti Bostantjopoulou

Vision disorders at presentation of the disease appear in 10–20% of cases of sCJD [38], and when visual disturbance is prominent it is called the Heidenhain (occipitoparietal) variant (3.7–10%) [39–44]. These clinical features are attributed to the occipital lobe disease and consist of blurred vision [39,42,44–46], decreased visual acuity [42,47,48], impaired color vision [42], metamorphopsia [45], abnormal visuospatial perception, visual snow [49], autotopagnosia [50], visual neglect, tunnel vision [42], cortical blindness [46,51], visual agnosia, palinopsia [42,52], diplopia and visual fields defects [41,42,47,53–56].

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