Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2024
First described by Hungarian neurologist Rezso Balint in 1909 and initially called “triple-complex syndrome,” Balint syndrome (later named after him in 1954) is a triad of symptoms involving attention and coordination of voluntary eye movements in patients with bilateral parieto-occipital lobe lesions. Though published reports of Balint syndrome have almost all been in case report form, and epidemiological trends cannot be generalized, cases have been reported in many conditions including but not limited to cerebral infarction, hemorrhage, neurodegenerative disease, posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome, brain trauma, brain tumor, CNS infection, autoimmune encephalitis, and prion disease.
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