{"id":70314,"date":"2025-11-14T08:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/balints-syndrome\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T08:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:43:15","slug":"balints-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/balints-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Balint&#8217;s syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rare neurological disorder characterized by a combination of visual and spatial impairment resulting from bilateral damage to the parieto-occipital regions of the brain, especially in the posterior parietal cortex. The main symptoms of Balint syndrome include:<x id=\"gid_0\"><\/x>1) Simultagnosia: Inability to perceive multiple objects or elements in the same scene at the same time. A person can focus on only one object, losing the overall context of the visual field.<x id=\"gid_1\"><\/x>2) Optical ataxia: Difficulty performing hand movements directed at an object while motor function is preserved, such as when trying to reach or grasp an object.<x id=\"gid_2\"><\/x>3) Oculomotor apraxia: Inability to move the eyes arbitrarily to fix the gaze on a visual target, making it difficult to change the direction of gaze or scan the environment. Balint&#8217;s syndrome usually occurs after a stroke or traumatic brain injury affecting the parieto-occipital regions, which leads to significant difficulties in processing visual information and interacting with the surrounding world.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare neurological disorder characterized by a combination of visual and spatial impairment resulting from bilateral damage to the parieto-occipital regions of the brain, especially in the posterior parietal cortex. The main symptoms of Balint syndrome include:1) Simultagnosia: Inability to perceive multiple objects or elements in the same scene at the same time. A person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-clinical-neuropsychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}