When the left brain is not right the right brain may be left: report of personal experience of occipital hemianopia.

OBJECTIVES

To make a personal report of a hemianopia due to an occipital infarct, sustained by a professor of neurology.

METHODS

Verbatim observation of neurological phenomena recorded during the acute illness.

RESULTS

Hemianopia, visual hallucinations, and non-occipital deficits without extraoccipital lesions on MRI, are described and discussed.

CONCLUSIONS

Hemianopia, due to an occipital infarct, without alexia, is not a disability which precludes a normal professional career. Neurorehabilitation has not been necessary.