Impact of Lewy bodies disease on visual skills and memory abilities: from prodromal stages to dementia
Cinzia Bussè, Micaela Mitolo, Stefano Mozzetta, Annalena Venneri, Annachiara Cagnin · 2024
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Description
Cinzia Bussè and co-authors review how Lewy body disease harms sight-based skills and memory, from its earliest stage to full dementia. Dementia with Lewy bodies stands out for weak attention and executive function and poor visual processing, while memory stays fairly spared at first. That pattern is the key to telling it apart from Alzheimer disease, where memory fails early. The review sums up studies that use targeted tasks to sharpen the contrast.
The evidence shows deep faults in visual-spatial and visual-construction skills in the prodromal stage, when impairment is still mild. In the same stage, patients do fairly well on memory tasks that rest on the hippocampus. Spotting these early signs through clinic and cognitive tests is the first step. It guides which scans and lab work-ups to order.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Cinzia Bussè, Micaela Mitolo, Stefano Mozzetta, Annalena Venneri, Annachiara Cagnin |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |