language and visuospatial deficits
Last edited 05/2022 and last reviewed 05/2022
Language and visuospatial defects appear as Alzheimer's disease progresses:
- language deficits:
- appear initially and may mask cognitive impairment
- speech is often empty of meaning and they may have some difficulty finding words
- occasionally patients may be aphasic
- visuospatial deficits:
- there may be an impairment of topographical memory and patients may become disoriented and get lost easily
- they may have problems with dressing - dressing dyspraxia
- occasionally patients may have a more focal onset of disease involving a breakdown of visual processing resulting in agnosias or rarely, Balint's syndrome.
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