Symptoms
The most common symptoms of acquired and transient cortical blindness include:
- A complete loss of visual sensation and of vision
- Preservation/sparing of the abilities to perceive light and/or moving, but not static objects (Riddoch phenomenon)
- A lack of visual fixation and tracking
- Denial of visual loss (Anton–Babinski syndrome)
- Visual hallucinations
- Macular sparing, in which vision in the fovea is spared from the blindness.
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