Visuospatial dysfunction may be a key in the differentiation between alzheimer's disease and subcortical cognitive impairment in moderate to severe stages

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 288-294

  Fukui, T ^a   Lee, E ^a   Kitamura, M ^b   Hosoda, H ^b   Bokui, C ^b   Ikusu, K ^b   Okita, K ^b  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SECOMEDIC Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Corticobasal degeneration; Dementia with Lewy bodies; Extrapyramidal cognitive impairment; Parkinson's disease; Progressive supranuclear palsy; Subcortical cognitive impairment; Vascular cognitive impairment; Visuospatial function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349891990     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000245157     Document Type: Article

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