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PR professional, Danny Whatmough asked on Twitter tonight: "Does anyone actually use Siri?"

My response was "Yes - PCA patients. While they are still speaking but not seeing properly, they find it useful."  I needed to point him to somewhere sensible for a more detailed explanation of the condition and realised this blog was missing one.  

So I had a dig around the internet and came across the document that appears below.  It was posted on a Yahoo! discussion group and written up by specialists at the Mayo clinic in America so the references are naturally US-centric.  All the same, it does a good job...

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