Complex visual hallucinations and attentional performance in eye disease and dementia: a test of the Perception and Attention Deficit model
Autor: | Robert Dudley, Daniel Collerton, S. M. Makin, J. Redman, C. Colbourn, Urs Peter Mosimann, Michael P. Clarke |
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Rok vydání: | 2013 |
Předmět: |
education.field_of_study
genetic structures media_common.quotation_subject Eye disease Population medicine.disease Visual Hallucination Test (assessment) Psychiatry and Mental health Perception medicine Attention deficit Dementia Geriatrics and Gerontology Psychology education media_common Cognitive psychology Stroop effect |
Zdroj: | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 28:1232-1238 |
ISSN: | 0885-6230 |
DOI: | 10.1002/gps.3947 |
Popis: | OBJECTIVE This study aimed to test the prediction from the Perception and Attention Deficit model of complex visual hallucinations (CVH) that impairments in visual attention and perception are key risk factors for complex hallucinations in eye disease and dementia. METHODS Two studies ran concurrently to investigate the relationship between CVH and impairments in perception (picture naming using the Graded Naming Test) and attention (Stroop task plus a novel Imagery task). The studies were in two populations-older patients with dementia (n = 28) and older people with eye disease (n = 50) with a shared control group (n = 37). The same methodology was used in both studies, and the North East Visual Hallucinations Inventory was used to identify CVH. RESULTS A reliable relationship was found for older patients with dementia between impaired perceptual and attentional performance and CVH. A reliable relationship was not found in the population of people with eye disease. CONCLUSIONS The results add to previous research that object perception and attentional deficits are associated with CVH in dementia, but that risk factors for CVH in eye disease are inconsistent, suggesting that dynamic rather than static impairments in attentional processes may be key in this population. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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