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Rezsö Bálint and His Most Celebrated Case
Masud Husain, DPhil;
John Stein, MRCP
Arch Neurol. 1988;45(1):89-93.
Abstract
• In 1907, Rezsö Bálint (1874-1929), a young Hungarian physician, recorded observations he had made on a patient who suffered from a remarkable constellation of symptoms—fixation of gaze, neglect of objects in the visual surround, and misreaching—following damage to the posterior parietal lobes. Although Bálint's syndrome, the name now given to these disorders of attention and visuomotor control, is well established in the neurologic literature, there remain problems of interpretation. Bálint's own attempts to understand exactly what was wrong with his patient offer a unique insight into the nature of neurologic thought at the beginning of this century.
Author Affiliations
From the University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford, England. Dr Husain is now with the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication June 8, 1987.
Reprint requests to Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, E25-236, Cambridge, MA 02139 (Dr Husain).
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