Mottron L, Mineau S, Décarie J C, Jambaqué I, Labrecque R, Pépin J P, Aroichane M
Service de Recherche, Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Dev Med Child Neurol. 1997 Oct;39(10):699-705. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1997.tb07367.x.
A 2-year-old boy meeting the criteria for autistic disorder was diagnosed 2 years later with a visual agnosia characterised by a combination of certain aspects of associative and apperceptive agnosia. MRI then revealed a severe encephalomalacia of the right temporal lobe and bilateral temporo-occipital areas. This association is discussed in terms of a clinical and aetiological relation between autistic disorder and visual agnosia.