| Identifier |
20210223_nanos_cognitivedisorders1_02-slides |
| Title |
Visual Features of Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, Lewy Body Dementia, and Posterior Cortical Atrophy Syndrome |
| Creator |
Victoria S. Pelak, MD |
| Affiliation |
University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO |
| Subject |
Dementing Neurodegenerative Disease; Alzheimer's Disease; Lewy Body Dementia; Visual Processing Dysfunction; Posterior Cortical Atrophy Syndrome |
| Description |
The majority of people with a progressively dementing illness associated with a neurodegenerative disease (NDD) will have visual processing dysfunction at some point in the course of their disease. This is attributed to the fact that Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementias are the most common cause of dementing NDDs and visual processing and visual perceptual impairment is frequent in those diseases. Manifestations include visuospatial, reaching under visual guidance, figure-ground perception, visual motion processing, central color vision processing, visual field loss, shape and letter discrimination, visual recognition, and visual attention. In a small portion of these patients, visual processing and visual perceptual dysfunction is the predominant and the initial clinical features of the illness. Other than visual hallucinations, it is important to recognize that the features of visual dysfunction cannot conclusively help to distinguish between disease entities. Biomarkers will increasingly play a major role in making specific disease-defining diagnoses. Despite the lack of disease-modifying treatments for patients with dementing neurodegenerative diseases, the clinical diagnosis, or biomarker identification, of the underlying disease is important for the care and management of patients. |
| Date |
2021-02 |
| Language |
eng |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Format Creation |
Microsoft PowerPoint |
| Type |
Text |
| Source |
2021 North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Annual Meeting |
| Relation is Part of |
NANOS Annual Meeting 2021: Cognitive Disorders and Vision |
| Collection |
Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: NANOS Annual Meeting Collection: https://novel.utah.edu/collection/nanos-annual-meeting-collection/ |
| Publisher |
North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society |
| Holding Institution |
Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah |
| Rights Management |
Copyright 2021. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6nw5h0g |
| Setname |
ehsl_novel_nam |
| ID |
1694033 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6nw5h0g |
