Aphantasia
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Aphantasia. Aphantasia is the inability to generate voluntary visual imagery. Fully referenced neurology checklist.
Description
- Aphantasia is the inability to generate voluntary visual imagery
- It is one extreme end of the ability to visualise
Causes
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Manifestations
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Epidemiology
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Clinical features
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Associated features
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References
- Bainbridge WA, Pounder Z, Eardley AF, Baker CI. Quantifying aphantasia through drawing: Those without visual imagery show deficits in object but not spatial memory. Cortex 2021; 135:159-172.
- Dawes AJ, Keogh R, Andrillon T, Pearson J. A cognitive profile of multi-sensory imagery, memory and dreaming in aphantasia. Sci Rep 2020; 10:10022.
- Keogh R, Pearson J, Zeman A. Aphantasia: the science of visual imagery extremes. Handb Clin Neurol 2021; 178:277-296.
- Bumgardner AL, Yuan K, Chiu AV. I cannot picture it in my mind: acquired aphantasia after autologous stem cell transplantation for multiple myeloma. Oxf Med Case Reports 2021; 2021:omab019.
- Sitek EJ, Konieczna S. Does progressive aphantasia exist? The hypothetical role of aphantasia in the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases. Behav Brain Sci 2022; 45:e299.
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