'Motion Blindness,' Not Just Poor Memory, Causes Alzheimer's Patients To Lose Their Way
ScienceDaily (Mar. 23, 1999) — A previously unobserved condition in some Alzheimer's patients that physicians are calling "motion blindness" is a big reason such patients become disoriented and lose t
New Findings About Brain's "Compass" Offer Clues About Alzheimer's
ScienceDaily (Apr. 1, 2002) — A tiny section of the brain that is ravaged by Alzheimer’s disease is more important for our ability to orient ourselves than scientists have long thought, helping to exp
Pinpointing the body's global positioning system
A tiny section in the back of the brain is critical for people to understand where they are in the world and how they got there, a sort of mental map that keeps location in context, scientists have fo