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Progressive Visual Agnosia Azusa Sugimoto 1 , Akinori Futamura 1 , Mitsuru Kawamura 1 1Department of Neurology,Showa University School of Medicine Keyword: progressive visual agnosia , atypical dementia , posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) , semantic dementia (SD) , prosopagnosia , picture agnosia pp.1079-1086
Published Date 2011/10/1
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1416101027
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Abstract

 Progressive visual agnosia was discovered in the 20th century following the discovery of classical non-progressive visual agnosia. In contrast to the classical type,which is caused by cerebral vascular disease or traumatic injury,progressive visual agnosia is a symptom of neurological degeneration. The condition of progressive visual loss,including visual agnosia,and posterior cerebral atrophy was named posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) by Benson et al. (1988). Progressive visual agnosia is also observed in semantic dementia (SD) and other degenerative diseases,but there is a difference in the subtype of visual agnosia associated with these diseases. Lissauer (1890) classified visual agnosia into apperceptive and associative types,and it in most cases,PCA is associated with the apperceptive type. However,SD patients exhibit symptoms of associative visual agnosia before changing to those of semantic memory disorder. Insights into progressive visual agnosia have helped us understand the visual system and discover how we "perceive" the outer world neuronally,with regard to consciousness. Although PCA is a type of atypical dementia,its diagnosis is important to enable patients to live better lives with appropriate functional support.


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