title: Vision in Alzheimer's disease.
abstract: In order to assess vision in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related disorders, gerontologists must use tests that make minimal cognitive demands on the subject. Using such tests, we have found a pattern of deficits in color discrimination, stereoacuity, contrast sensitivity, and backward masking that differs from that seen in healthy elderly individuals. Impaired vision predicts deficient performance of subjects with AD on numerous tests of cognition, underscoring the importance of understanding visual changes in this population.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Boston University, MA 02215, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cronin-Golomb
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008404:Massachusetts; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012016:Reference Values; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D015351:Vision Screening; D014787:Vision Tests