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Visual attention-related processing in Alzheimer's disease

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2008

Andrea Tales  and
Gillian Porter
Andrea Tales*
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, Bristol University, UK
Gillian Porter
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, Bristol University, UK
*
Address for correspondence: A Tales, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, 12a Priory Road, Bristol BS8 1TU, UK. Email: [email protected]
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The clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) involves neuropsychological testing to assess the integrity of higher order cerebral functions such as memory, cognition, visual perception, language and executive function. However, the onset of AD is insidious and diagnosing the very early stages may be precluded as such tests may lack the necessary sensitivity and specificity. This, together with the potential for similar shortcomings in relation to assessing disease progression and response to treatment, has prompted the search for disease markers based on abnormalities in additional aspects of brain processing. One area receiving increasing investigation is the integrity of visual and visual-attention-related processing.

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Neuropsychiatry of old age
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , August 2008 , pp. 229 - 243
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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