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<journal-id>0016-3813</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Gaceta médica de México]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Gac. Méd. Méx]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0016-3813</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Academia Nacional de Medicina de México A.C.]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0016-38132019000500516</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24875/gmm.m20000342</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[&#8221;The books and the night&#8221;, neurological perspective on Jorge Luis Borges&#8217; blindness]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Castillo-Torres]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Sergio A.]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Garza-Marichalar]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[José G.]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Soto-Rincón]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Carlos A.]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Cantú-García]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Diego A.]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Estrada-Bellmann]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Ingrid E.]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Chávez-Luévanos]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Beatriz E.]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León Hospital Universitario &#8220;Dr. José E. González&#8221; Department of Neurology]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ Nuevo León]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León Haospital Universitario &#8220;Dr. José E. González&#8221; Department of Psychiatry]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ Nuevo León]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2019</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2019</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>155</volume>
<numero>5</numero>
<fpage>516</fpage>
<lpage>518</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0016-38132019000500516&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0016-38132019000500516&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0016-38132019000500516&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[The works of Argentinian scholar Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) have captivated physicians. An assiduous reader, he was given, with magnificent irony, &#8220;books and the night&#8221;. Borges suffered from chronic and irreversible blindness, which influenced much of his work and has been the subject of different literary and diagnostic analyses from the ophthalmological point of view. However, the characteristics of his visual impairment have escaped the neurological approach, which is why we reviewed his work looking for data suggesting a concomitant brain injury. On his autobiography, he recounts how, during an episode of septicemia, he suffered hallucinations and loss of speech; in addition, in some poems and essays he describes data that suggest &#8220;phantom chromatopsia&#8221;, a lesion of cortical origin. After that accident, Borges survived with a radical change in literary style. Although a precise diagnosis is impossible, his literary work allows recognizing some elements in favor of concomitant brain involvement.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Seven nights]]></kwd>
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