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Abnormality in saccadic eye movement in dementia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

H.J. Schewe ,
R. Uebelhack  and
K. Vohs
H.J. Schewe
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Charité), Schumannstr. 20-21, 10117Berlin, Germany
R. Uebelhack
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Charité), Schumannstr. 20-21, 10117Berlin, Germany
K. Vohs
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Charité), Schumannstr. 20-21, 10117Berlin, Germany
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Summary

In a small (n = 15) clinically heterogeneous group of patients with dementia of the Alzheimer-type or vascular dementia, abnormally high frequency of saccadic intrusions during fixation was significantly correlated to the Mini-Mental-State-Examination (MMSE) scores. In addition, the latency of saccades and hypometric saccades also correlated significantly to MMSE-scores. The results point to the possible use of saccadic eye movement as a physiological marker of cognitive performance.

Keywords

dementiasaccadic eye movementsaccadic intrusionsmini-mental-state-examination

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European Psychiatry , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 1999 , pp. 52 - 53
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Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1999

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