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Charcot-Wilbrand syndrome

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Loss of dreaming after a stroke.

In more technical terms the syndrome is characterized by visual agnosia and the inability to revisualise images.

Named for the French founder of modern neurology Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) and the German neuro-ophthalmologist Hermann Wilbrand

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