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Within our grasp: Visually guided reaching in prodromal Alzheimer's disease
- Alexandra G Mitchell
- Robert D McIntosh
- Stephanie Rossit
- Suvankar Pal
- Michael Hornberger
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Description: Recent evidence has implicated the precuneus of the medial parietal lobe as one of the first brain areas to show pathological changes in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Damage to the precuneus through focal brain injury is associated with impaired visually-guided reaching, particularly for objects in peripheral vision. This raises the hypothesis that peripheral misreaching may be detectable in patients with prodromal AD. The aim of this study is to assess the frequency and severity of peripheral misreaching in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and AD. We also aim to test other behaviours associated with parietal lobe function such as attention and online-correction.
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