medical Definition of Anton's syndrome
: a rare disorder in which blindness associated with damage to the cerebral cortex especially of the occipital lobes is accompanied by denial of visual loss by the patient
- Anton's syndrome is usually associated with bilateral cerebral infarcts in the distribution of the posterior cerebral arteries.
- —Kenneth M. Heilman, in Awareness of Deficit After Brain Injury …, 1991
- Unawareness or denial of blindness in the Anton syndrome is coupled with confabulations.
- —Michael S. Myslobodsky and Leslie Hicks, in The Mythomanias …, 1997
