Aphantasia

Evidence-based neurology checklist on aphantasia: Description Aphantasia is the inability to generate voluntary visual imagery It is one extreme end of the ability to visualise Causes Manifestations Epidemiology Clinical features Associated features

Description

  • Aphantasia is the inability to generate voluntary visual imagery
  • It is one extreme end of the ability to visualise

Causes

Manifestations

Epidemiology

Clinical features

Associated features

References

  1. 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.
  2. 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. 
  3. Keogh R, Pearson J, Zeman A. Aphantasia: the science of visual imagery extremes. Handb Clin Neurol 2021; 178:277-296.
  4. 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. 
  5. 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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