Visuospatial perception: An emerging biomarker for Alzheimer's disease

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Volumn 31, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2012, Pages

  Mandal, Pravat K ^a,b   Joshi, Jitesh ^a   Saharan, Sumiti ^a  

^a Neurospectroscopy and Neuroimaging Laboratory   (India)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; biomarker; functional magnetic resonance imaging; mild cognitive impairment; visuospatial perception

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE MARKER; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; REVIEW; SENILE PLAQUE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84866847583     PISSN: 13872877     EISSN: 18758908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-2012-120901     Document Type: Review

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