Spatial relation disorder in case of Kashmiri speaking alzheimer's disease patients

Abstract

There are many linguistic aspects which get shattered by Alzheimer's disease. Similarly spatial relation gets impaired among AD patients. The present study is an attempt to document Spatial Relation found in Urdu Speaking Kashmiri Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients using cross-sectional design. Forty mild-moderate- advanced AD patients and 30 controls matched for age, gender and education completed a simple picture recognition task will be considered for the present study. Cross-sectional comparisons in the present study indicated that mild-moderate AD patients produced more errors in spatial positions than control group.