Abstract: Compared 30 Subjects (aged 57-86 yrs) with Alzheimer's disease (AD) to
     30 matched controls on 7 sets of complex visual tests to characterize
     visual disturbances in AD. Despite preserved visual acuity and color
     recognition, AD Subjects were impaired in the visual evaluation of common
     objects, famous faces, spatial locations, and complex figures. All AD
     Subjects had disturbances in figure-ground analysis and 17 had difficulty
     recognizing actual objects. Subjects with worse dementia disability had the
     most complex visual disturbances. Six AD Subjects with Balint's syndrome
     performed most poorly. A range of visual disturbances is common in AD and
     may result from neuropathology in the visual association cortex. ((c) 1997
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