Publications by authors named "Richard Ryan Darby"
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- Blindsight is a condition where individuals can process certain visual information without being consciously aware of it, and prior research has had inconsistent findings regarding the brain areas involved in this phenomenon.
- The study involved analyzing lesion locations in both blindsight patients and those with typical visual perception, using a large database to assess the functional connectivity of these areas with the rest of the brain.
- The main discovery showed that connectivity to the medial pulvinar region was significantly linked to blindsight, providing new insights into the brain's role in unconscious visual processing.
Objective: Perirolandic atrophy occurs in corticobasal syndrome (CBS) but is not specific versus progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). There is heterogeneity in the locations of atrophy outside the perirolandic cortex and it remains unknown why atrophy in different locations would cause the same CBS-specific symptoms. In prior work, we used a wiring diagram of the brain called the human connectome to localize lesion-induced disorders to symptom-specific brain networks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInsect sting-related envenomation rarely produces seizures. We present a patient with confusion and seizures that began 24 hours after a yellow jacket (wasp) sting. Given the rapid onset and resolution of symptoms, as well as accompanying dermatological and orbital features, and the lack of any infectious or structural abnormalities identified, the toxic effect of the wasp venom (and related anaphylaxis reaction) was believed to be the cause of his presentation.
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