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"Alterations of Visual Search Strategies in Alzheimer's Disease."
Published in Blood Weekly, October 11th, 1999
According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, held April 17-24, 1999, in Toronto, Canada, "Objective: To investigate visual search strategies in a target detection task in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD). Background: The primary clinical symptom of AD is amnesia, reflecting the early affinity of the pathology for the limbic areas. Another early physiological marker of AD is a reduction of metabolic activity in the parietal areas. The behavioral correlates of this disturbance may be reflected in an impairment of visual spatial attention. In the present study, we determined if there...
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