Visual hallucinations in a blind epileptic

Christopher M. Filley; David A. Stumpf; Greta Wilkening

doi:10.3109/01658108309009734

Visual hallucinations in a blind epileptic

Christopher M. Filley, David A. Stumpf^*, Greta Wilkening

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A 17-year-old boy, blind since the age of 14 weeks, describes visual hallucinations in association with complex partial seizures. He reports unformed images which have various colors, although blindness precluded his acquisition of color-naming ability. These images may result from acquired or innate neural color representations. In either case, neural coding for color is present from an early age.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	167-170
Number of pages	4
Journal	Neuro-Ophthalmology
Volume	3
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3109/01658108309009734
State	Published - 1983

Keywords

Blindness
Epilepsy
Visual hallucination

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Ophthalmology
Clinical Neurology

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