{"id":190332,"date":"2024-05-29T14:22:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T19:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/researchers-uncover-strange-symptom-that-could-be-first-sign-of-alzheimers"},"modified":"2024-05-29T14:22:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T19:22:47","slug":"researchers-uncover-strange-symptom-that-could-be-first-sign-of-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/researchers-uncover-strange-symptom-that-could-be-first-sign-of-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"Researchers uncover strange symptom that could be first sign of Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-uncover-strange-symptom-that-could-be-first-sign-of-alzheimers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New symptoms such as failing to identify more than one object at a time and a \u201cspace perception deficit\u201d could be the first signs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/news\/us-news\/blood-tests-detect-early-alzheimers-504743\" rel=\"follow nofollow\" target=\"_self\"><b> Alzheimer\u2019s <\/b><\/a> disease, a new study has found.<\/p>\n<p>Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), is a diagnosis for those who struggle with judging distances, distinguishing between moving and stationary objects and completing tasks like writing and it overwhelmingly predicts Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest study from researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, some 94 per cent patients with PCA had <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/bruce-willis-tearful-wife-says-113910?utm_source=mynewsassistant.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=embedded_search_item_desktop\" rel=\"follow nofollow\" target=\"_self\"> Alzheimer\u2019s pathology<\/a><\/b>. Most patients with PCA have normal cognition early on, but by the time of their first diagnostic visit, an average 3.8 years after symptom onset, mild or moderate dementia was apparent with deficits identified in memory, executive function, behavior, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/all-about\/dementia\" rel=\"follow nofollow\" target=\"_self\"><b> speech and language <\/b><\/a>, according to the researchers\u2019 findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New symptoms such as failing to identify more than one object at a time and a \u201cspace perception deficit\u201d could be the first signs of Alzheimer\u2019s disease, a new study has found. Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), is a diagnosis for those who struggle with judging distances, distinguishing between moving and stationary objects and completing tasks [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190332","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\/190332","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}