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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