Letter To Editor

Brain Cortex Blindness

Anna Piro¹*, Gabriele Curto², Teresa La Rosa³, Paola Vaccaro², Marianna Vaccaro² and Domenico Bosco^1,4

¹Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Bioimmagini e Fisiologia Molecolare, Catanzaro, Italy

²Dipartimento Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, Università “Magna Graecia”, Catanzaro, Italy

³Ingegneria Informatica e Biomedica, Scuola di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy

⁴Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria “R. Dulbecco”, Catanzaro, Italy

Submission: December 04, 2024; Published: December 06, 2024

*Corresponding author: Dr. Anna Piro, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Bioimmagini e Sistemi Biologici Complessi, Via Tommaso Campanella, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy

How to cite this article: Anna P, Gabriele C, Teresa La R, Paola V, Marianna V, et al. Brain Cortex Blindness. 2024; 11(5): 555825. DOI: 10.19080/JOJO.2024.11.555825

Keywords: Brain Cortex Blindness; White/Black Vision; Neurological Diseases

Letter To Editor

Dear Editor,

brain cortex blindness is the total or partial loss of vision in a normal appearing eye caused by damage to the brain’s occipital cortex, where V1 primary visive area places. A patient with acquired brain cortex blindness may have little or no insight that they have lost vision, a phenomenon known as Anton syndrome, from Gabriel Anton a Deutch neurologist who discovered it in 1899. Historically, Lucio Anneo Seneca in his “Lettere Morali a Lucilio” (61-65 p.C.) wrote in Letter n. 50 “Arpaste, who is my crazy wife, stays in my home…suddenly she lost her sight … she does not know to be blind, and she wish go away because my home is very dark…she believes”. Michel Eyquem de Moutaigne in 1595 should a nobleman who did not think being blind; he showed clear blindness symptoms, and he did not show any psychiatric, or cognitive deficits. White/Black vision due to brain cortex blindness represents a peculiarity studying many neurological diseases like Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. Color vision resulted to be a precise biological and physiological marker studying the brain cortex areas functions in neurological diseases.