Sometimes confused with congenital achromatopsia, cerebral achromatopsia is due to cerebral cortex damage. The main causes are ischemia or insufficient oxygen, or infarction or tissue death in the ventral occipitotemporal cortex due to lesions or stroke. However, doctors note approximately 72 percent of the cases of cerebral achromatopsia are accompanied by prosopagnosia, facial blindness.

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