The House Call: Baffled by his first meeting with P, the neurologist determines to observe his patient in the environment of his own home. As he prepares to depart, P makes several alarming mistakes and the neurologist resolves to see him again. A series of routine neurological tests is carried out, revealing little. arrive at the neurologist's clinic, having been referred by an ophthalmologist. Prologue: The Examiner delivers an address concerning his approach to neurology, and introduces the case of Doctor P. In the case of Dr P, a gifted performer, his exceptional musical ability allows him, in large measure, to return sense to the world by putting it and his actions into music. If a world cannot be organised visually, other organizing principles may be found and used. They cannot recognise people or places or common objects their visual world is no longer meaningful or familiar, but strange, abstract, chaotic, mystifying. They see colours, lines, boundaries, simple shapes, patterns, movement – but they are unable to recognise, or find sense in, what they see. An investigation into the world of a man (Dr P) with visual agnosia (or ‘mental blindness’ due to damage of the visual parts of the brain).
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