Balint syndrome
Findings
No curated finding names Balint syndrome yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Balint syndrome is a rare neurologic disease characterized by the triad of optic ataxia, ocular apraxia and simultanagnosia due to posterior parietal lobe lesions. Patients report ophthalmologic difficulties in the absence of underlying ophthalomologic anomalies and present severe visual and spatial disabilities in locating and reaching objects, initiating voluntary eye movements and perceiving more than one object at a time.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0018211), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
1 feature
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, hp/releases/2026-09-01.
- Oculomotor apraxiaMondoHP:0000657
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
3 names
Resolves to: Balint syndrome
- Also called
- Balint-Holmes syndromeoptic ataxia-gaze apraxia-simultanagnosia syndromepsychic paralysis of visual fixation