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For the following example of Patient X,please describe what is occurring neurologically (name and describe his disorder).
Patient X is an artist who recently suffered a stroke,resulting in bilateral medial occipital damage.After the stroke,Patient X could name some objects but not others.Those he could name,he could also draw well.But those he didn't recognize,he could only mechanistically copy,feature by feature,first a square,then a circle,then connecting lines,without any inkling of what they represented.

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Patient X has visual agnosia,more specif...

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