SENSORIMOTOR NEUROLOGY

Abstract

INJURY to both occipital lobes of the brain was a result of a gunshot lesion affecting the posterior part of the skull. As in other cases seen during the war a distinct localization was observed for different qualities of optic disturbance. Blindness for the form of objects was an isolated defect more definitely observed than in any case previously examined. Deficient perception of form and shape was limited to the visual sphere and no disturbance was observed with regard to form and shape in any other region of the brain, e.g. by touching, writing and drawing. Goldstein and Gelb previously described a disturbance for visual form not limited to the visual region in a case of a lesion of the occipital lobe, but according to Kleist's opinion this resulted from a brain lesion outside the visual sphere. M.