{"id":181950,"date":"2024-02-03T10:24:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T16:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/several-bizarre-visual-symptoms-shown-to-be-a-strong-predictor-for-alzheimers"},"modified":"2024-02-03T10:24:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T16:24:03","slug":"several-bizarre-visual-symptoms-shown-to-be-a-strong-predictor-for-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/several-bizarre-visual-symptoms-shown-to-be-a-strong-predictor-for-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"Several Bizarre Visual Symptoms Shown to Be a Strong Predictor For Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/several-bizarre-visual-symptoms-shown-to-be-a-strong-predictor-for-alzheimers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rare condition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/drc\/pca-support-group\/posterior-cortical-atrophy\">posterior cortical atrophy<\/a> (PCA) involves strange, troubling issues with vision and spatial awareness \u2013 including difficulty judging distances, seeing movement, and recognizing objects \u2013 and a new study highlights its close relationship to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease in more detail than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>PCA and Alzheimer\u2019s have long been linked with each other, because they share a lot of the same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/breakthrough-alzheimers-discovery-reveals-five-distinct-variants\">pathological changes in the brain<\/a>. However, the rarity of PCA has made it hard for researchers to fully assess it in relation to Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>To address that, an international team of researchers analyzed data on 1,092 individuals with PCA, finding that it was a very strong predictor for Alzheimer\u2019s: in 94 percent of cases, tell-tale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/we-may-finally-understand-how-the-tangled-proteins-in-dementia-cause-cells-to-die\">Alzheimer\u2019s brain changes<\/a> were observed, and were most likely contributing to PCA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rare condition posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) involves strange, troubling issues with vision and spatial awareness \u2013 including difficulty judging distances, seeing movement, and recognizing objects \u2013 and a new study highlights its close relationship to Alzheimer\u2019s disease in more detail than ever before. PCA and Alzheimer\u2019s have long been linked with each other, because [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}