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SUBMITTER: Cohen L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6689678 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Annals of clinical and translational neurology 20190710 8
We report the case of a patient suffering from cortical blindness following bilateral occipital stroke, who recovered normal vision in his right visual field following injection of the local anesthetic mepivacaïne. The effect was transient but reproducible, allowing the patient to lead a normal life. Effect duration increased after adjunction of paroxetine. We provide anatomical and functional brain imaging correlates of this improvement, showing particularly how functional connectivity is resto ...[more]