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Alzheimer Disease

Findings in alzheimer disease reported from Brown University, Department of Psychology

Published in Pain and Central Nervous System Week, December 25th, 2006

New research, "Considering phasic alerting in Alzheimer's disease: comment on Tales et al. (2006)," is the subject of a report. According to a study from the United States, "A. Tales, R. J. Snowden, M. Brown, and G. Wilcock (2006) have questioned the authors' view of a possible interdependence between attentional systems mediating exogenous spatial orienting and phasic alerting as well as the authors' suggestion that phasic alerting deficits in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) may be influencing their performance on tests of spatial orienting."

"Consistent with this possibility, both laboratories have previously demonstrated increased spatial orienting and...

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