Thursday 31 October 2013

What is Achromatopsia?

What is Achromatopsia?


Achromatopsia or ACHM is a medical condition which shows symptoms related to a minimum of 5 separate individual medical disorders. 

This term, in some cases, refers to Cerebral Achromatopisa and is commonly known as Color agnosia. 

It is a autosomal recessive congenital color vision defect where the patients will be unable to perceive color and will be able to have satisfactory visual activity only when the high levels of light. 

Incomplete form of Achromatoposia is termed as dyschromatopsia. Estimation of occurrence of this disorder is 1:33,000. 

According to the researchers, patients suffering from this disorder will not be able to see colored ones, but will see them only in white, black and shades of grey. 

Diagnosing the typical achromatic conditions is difficult because of low response rates, small sample sizes, etc. 



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