Synaesthesia: clinical features

Evidence-based neurology checklist on synaesthesia: clinical features: Frequent types Grapheme-colour: letter colour and number colour types Tone-colour Touch-vision Somatosensory-auditory Number-space Time-space Lexical-gustatory Personification of numbers and letters There are >60 different…

Frequent types

  • Grapheme-colour: letter colour and number colour types
  • Tone-colour
  • Touch-vision
  • Somatosensory-auditory
  • Number-space
  • Time-space
  • Lexical-gustatory
  • Personification of numbers and letters
  • There are >60 different types

Clinical features

Associated features

Co-morbid disorders

Assessments

Brain imaging features

References

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