Ahmad Beyh

Neural patterns of conscious visual awareness in the Riddoch syndrome.

Journal of Neurology November 2023 Ahmad Beyh, Samuel E Rasche, Alexander Leff et al.

The Riddoch syndrome is one in which patients blinded by lesions to their primary visual cortex can consciously perceive visual motion in their blind field, an ability that correlates with activity in motion area V5. Our assessment of the characteristics of this syndrome in patient ST, using multimodal MRI, showed that: 1. ST's V5 is intact, receives direct subcortical input, and decodable...