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Right‐1eft disorientation in dementia of the Alzheimer type
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NeuropsychologyAlzheimer's DiseaseAlzheimer TypeMedicineDementiaNeurolinguisticsConfronting SubjectVascular Cognitive DisorderVascular DementiaFrontotemporal DementiaAphasiaNeuroscienceNeurologyNeurodegenerationRight-left OrientationCognitive NeuroscienceSocial SciencesGeriatric Neurology
We demonstrated that right-left orientation (R/L-O) on a confronting subject is more impaired in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type than in patients with multi-infarct dementia of comparable degree of dementia. The impairment in R/L-O is independent of aphasia and spatial disorientation.