Visual Extinction (Neurology)

Visual Extinction is the neurological disorder characterised by severe impairment in identifying two or more stimuli displayed briefly at the same time.

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Patients having such condition successfully identify single object presented to them briefly. In case of multiple stimuli pations either just fail to identify some of the objects or even do not detect them at all.

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Most common reason of such disorder is damage in number of brain regions most commonly in the right hemisphere.

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