Posterior cortical atrophy: a single case cognitive and radiological follow-up.

Posterior cortical atrophy: a single case cognitive and radiological follow-up.
Neurocase. 2018 Jan 08;:1-15
Authors: Esteves S, Ramirez Romero DA, Torralva T, Martínez Cuitiño M, Herndon S, Couto B, Ibañez A, Manes F, Roca M
Abstract
Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) is a rare neurodegenerative syndrome characterized by initial predominant visuoperceptual deficits followed by a progressive decline in other cognitive functions. This syndrome has not been as thoroughly described as other dementias, particularly from a neuropsychological evolution perspective with only a few studies describing the evolution of its cognitive progression. In this investigation we review the literature on this rare condition and we perform a 7-year neuropsychological and neuroradiological follow-up of a 64-year-old man with PCA. The subject's deficits initially appeared in his visuoperceptual skills with later affectation appearing in language and other cognitive functions, this being coherent with the patient's parieto-temporal atrophy evolution.
PMID: 29308699 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Neurocase - January 8, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Esteves S, Ramirez Romero DA, Torralva T, Martínez Cuitiño M, Herndon S, Couto B, Ibañez A, Manes F, Roca M Tags: Neurocase Source Type: research