A team of international researchers, led by UC San Francisco, has completed the first large-scale study of posterior cortical atrophy, a baffling constellation of visuospatial symptoms that present as ...

A team of international researchers has completed the first large-scale study of posterior cortical atrophy, a baffling constellation of visuospatial symptoms that present as the first symptoms of ...

A new study suggests that Alzheimer's disease possibly begins to manifest in some patients as a disease that causes vision problems and is often overlooked. But more awareness could lead to an early ...

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and mammalian visual systems share architectural and information processing similarities. We leverage these parallels to develop an in-silico CNN model simulating ...

Differences in the distribution of certain proteins and markers in the brain may explain why some people first experience vision changes instead of memory loss in Alzheimer's disease, finds a new ...

The development of effective interventions for neurodegenerative disorders, such as posterior cortical atrophy (a visual Alzheimer’s variant), remains to be a significant clinical challenge. We ...