visuospatial impairment in Alzheimer's disease

Etiology

• posterior cortical atrophy

Clinical manifestations

• environmental disorientation, progressing from becoming easily lost in unfamiliar places to disorientation in their own home (getting lost in familiar environments)
• a choreographer unable to determine where dancers should be on stage & unable to pay attention to multiple dancers at the same time
• progressive decline in copying complex figures (cube) to simple items (circle)
• as the disease progresses, an inability to recognize objects or familiar faces

More general terms

• visuospatial dysfunction

Additional terms

• Alzheimer's disease (ADD)
• visuospatial function