Partial or total blindness due to injury in the brain's visual centers.
Total or partial blindness resulting from injury to the brain's visual centers in the cerebral cortex. The individual is able to pick up visual information with his eyes, but his brain cannot process and interpret the information. Cost-of-care liability: The right of a state providing care to someone with disabilities to charge for the care and to collect from that person's assets.
Blindness caused by malformation or damage to the cortex of the brain.
Cortical blindess is the total loss of vision in a normal-appearing eye caused by damage to the visual area in the brain's occipital cortex http://www.triadpublishing.com/eyedictionary.shtml. Bilateral lesions of the primary visual cortex may cause cortical blindness. Patients have no vision but the response of the pupil to light is intact (as the reflex does not involve cortex).