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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Alzheimer's / January 2005questions
Has anyone noticed that there loved ones appears to have no perrifeal(sp) vision?My mom seems to see only what she is looking directly at.Something can be 2 inches above it and she will not see it.Barb I found this interesting informal guide for law enforcement officers dealing with people with Alzheimer's. You will note under the first bullet it talks about loss of peripheral vision. http://www.zarcrom.com/users/alzheimers/cm02a.html Mary G. >I found this interesting informal guide for law enforcement officers > dealing with people with Alzheimer's. You will note under the first > bullet it talks about loss of peripheral vision. > http://www.zarcrom.com/users/alzheimers/cm02a.html This was quite interesting but I got confused about one part -- it talks about two kinds of AD patients, depending on which side of the brain is affected??? First I've heard of this -- and my mom is backward from this explanation. Her left side of the brain is much more affected and is very docile and timid. Songbird >This was quite interesting but I got confused about one part -- it talks >about two kinds of AD patients, depending on which side of the brain is >affected??? First I've heard of this -- and my mom is backward from this >explanation. Her left side of the brain is much more affected and is very >docile and timid. How do you know which side of her brain is more affected? - Mod as a hooter! >How do you know which side of her brain is more affected? In case that sounds argumentative, I asked it as an honest question. That is, by what means was it determined which side was affected. - Mod as a hooter! No, I knew what you meant. Technically, Mom has vascular dementia rather than AD (tho she may have AD as well -- hard to tell). Brain scan shows large portions of her brain not getting sufficient blood, esp. on left side. Her carotid arteries are clear, but that means the blockages are too deeply embedded to be cleared surgically. Songbird >>How do you know which side of her brain is more affected? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > - > Mod as a hooter! I don't think the guy who wrote the guide is any kind of medical expert. The value is really in his behavioural observations and advice - which for the most part is pretty smart, especially since cops with no experience dealing with AD probably do need his helpful tips (dealing with someone with AD certainly was a "learn" at our house). He has made that some people with dementia are easily agitated, and some are very docile and that is true... and we all know from loved ones, sometimes that is behaviour seen in a single person at different times, or at different stages of the disease. I think the thing about the damage to one side or the other is just his own theory, but wouldn't hold up to any research. When you start reading about the results of brain scans on people with AD, the damage is never one sided - its global, unless you are talking about a different dementia such as a frontal lobe disease like Pick's. Mary G. I found this interesting informal guide for law enforcement officers dealing with people with Alzheimer's. You will note under the first bullet it talks about loss of peripheral vision. http://www.zarcrom.com/users/alzheimers/cm02a.html Mary G. |
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