Anton Babinski syndrome is a condition in which patient disaffirm their blindness (visual anosognosia) in spite of complete amaurosis of central origin (cortical blindness). In this, patient adamantly claim they are capable of seeing and/ or experiencing strange visual hallucinatory episodes, consequently resulting in confabulation [1].
This syndrome was first described by French writer Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592). In late 1890s Gabriel Anton (1858-1933), Austrian neuro-psychiatrist noted three patients, one with cortical blindness one with deafness and one with left sided hemiparesis all lacking self-perception of their deficit. Joseph Babinski (1857-1932), French neurologist in 1914 used the term ‘Anosognosia’ to describe hemiplegic patients …show more content…
Others cause being obstetric complication such as pre-eclampsia and hemorrhage resulting in hypo-perfusion [5], Hypertensive encephalopathy [6], MELAS (Mitochondrial myopathy, Encephalomyopathy, Lactic Acidosis and Stroke like episodes) [7] Adrenloeucodystrophy [8], cardiac surgery [9], head trauma [10], Angiitis (auto-immune) of central nervous system [11]. Angiographic procedures which disrupts blood brain barrier, coexisting with hypotension, embolism and vasospasma can also causes cortical blindness [12]. Any condition resulting in systemic hypoxia mainly affects occipital cortex because it lies distal from central cerebral vasculature