Approaching objects cause confusion in patients with Alzheimer's disease regarding their direction of self-movement

Brain

Volumn 133, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2690-2701

  Mapstone, Mark ^a   Duffy, Charles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; cerebral cortex; cognitive neurology; mild cognitive impairment; visual cognition

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY MOVEMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FACE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MOTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; ADOLESCENT; AGED; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HEAD MOVEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONFUSION; CUES; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956364724     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awq140     Document Type: Article

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