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Most who are affected by this are people with visual impairments due to old age, damage to the eyes or optic pathways. In particular, central vision loss due to a condition such as macular degeneration combined with peripheral vision loss from glaucoma may predispose to<unk> , although most people with such deficits do not develop the syndrome.
This syndrome is well portrayed in Vilayanur S. Ramachandran's book Phantoms in the brain.
Charles Bonnet syndrome
Thieffry and Sorrell Dejerine syndrome
Braun-Bayer syndrome
Aarskog-Scott syndrome
Weinstein Kliman Scully syndrome
Noonan syndrome
Stickler syndrome
Young–Simpson syndrome