ReviewAlzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2018
Can visuospatial measures improve the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease?
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- Cognitive Impairment Is Associated with Disrupted Motor Planning in Older Adults.Neuro-degenerative diseases · 2026Article
- Clock drawing test strategies among older adults with and without cognitive impairment.Dementia & neuropsychologia · 2026Article
- Silhouettes, number Location, and cube analysis tests from the VOSP battery reveal visual object and space perception deficits in early Alzheimer's disease.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The ICN-UN Battery: A Machine Learning-Optimized Tool for Expeditious Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Visuospatial outcomes of a prospective national cohort of young adults with very low birthweight.Pediatric research · 2025Article
- Improving current understanding of cognitive impairment in patients with a spinal cord injury: A UK-based clinician survey.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2025Article
- Fourteen years later: Reviewing the diagnostic criteria for behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
- PENSIEVE-AI a brief cognitive test to detect cognitive impairment across diverse literacy.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Early Changes in the Locus Coeruleus in Mild Cognitive Impairment with Lewy Bodies.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2025Article
- Defining familiarity in nursing homes providing care for residents with dementia: a scoping review.Frontiers in dementia · 2025Review
- Color memory as a diagnostic test for mild cognitive impairment and early stage of Alzheimer's disease.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Associations of cerebral amyloid beta and tau with cognition from midlife.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Article
- Visuospatial working memory in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia: a comparative analysis with Alzheimer's disease using the box task.Journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Genetic modifiers of cognitive decline in PSEN1 E280A Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Article
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Abstract
introductionOverlapping and evolving symptoms lead to ambiguity in the diagnosis of dementia. Visuospatial function relies on parietal lobe function, which may be affected in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). This review evaluates visuospatial dysfunction in patients with AD, frontotemporal dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, and vascular dementia to determine the diagnostic and prognostic potential of visuospatial tasks in AD.
methodsA systematic search of studies (1960-2016) investigating visuospatial dysfunction in dementia was conducted.
resultsTests measuring construction, specifically Block Design and Clock Drawing Test, and visual memory, specifically Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure recall and topographical tasks, show the greatest diagnostic potential in dementia. The Benton visual retention, Doors and People, and topographical memory tests show potential as prognostic markers. DISCUSSION: Tests of visuospatial function demonstrate significant diagnostic and prognostic potential in dementia. Further studies with larger samples of pathologically confirmed cases are required to verify clinical utility.
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