Spatial navigation deficits—overlooked cognitive marker for preclinical Alzheimer disease?

G Coughlan, J Laczó, J Hort, AM Minihane… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Detection of incipient Alzheimer disease (AD) pathophysiology is critical to identify
preclinical individuals and target potentially disease-modifying therapies towards them …

Explaining world‐wide variation in navigation ability from millions of people: citizen science project sea hero quest

HJ Spiers, A Coutrot… - Topics in cognitive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Navigation ability varies widely across humans. Prior studies have reported that being
younger and a male has an advantage for navigation ability. However, these studies have …

Toward personalized cognitive diagnostics of at-genetic-risk Alzheimer's disease

G Coughlan, A Coutrot, M Khondoker… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Spatial navigation is emerging as a critical factor in identifying preclinical Alzheimer's
disease (AD). However, the impact of interindividual navigation ability and demographic risk …

Differentiation of mild cognitive impairment using an entorhinal cortex-based test of virtual reality navigation

D Howett, A Castegnaro, K Krzywicka, J Hagman… - Brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The entorhinal cortex is one of the first regions to exhibit neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's
disease, and as such identification of entorhinal cortex dysfunction may aid detection of the …

Egocentric and allocentric spatial memory in mild cognitive impairment with real-world and virtual navigation tasks: A systematic review

C Tuena, V Mancuso… - Journal of …, 2021 - content.iospress.com
Background: Spatial navigation is the ability to estimate one's position on the basis of
environmental and self-motion cues. Spatial memory is the cognitive substrate underlying …

Going round in circles—The Papez circuit in Alzheimer's disease

G Forno, A Lladó, M Hornberger - European Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The hippocampus is regarded as the pivotal structure for episodic memory symptoms
associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology. However, what is often …

The effect of Alzheimer's disease on spatial navigation strategies

M Parizkova, O Lerch, SD Moffat, R Andel… - Neurobiology of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Hippocampal and basal forebrain (BF) atrophy is associated with allocentric navigation
impairment in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and may lead to recruitment of compensatory …

[HTML][HTML] An immersive virtual reality platform for assessing spatial navigation memory in predementia screening: feasibility and usability study

K Ijaz, N Ahmadpour, SL Naismith, RA Calvo - JMIR mental health, 2019 - mental.jmir.org
Background: Traditional methods for assessing memory are expensive and have high
administrative costs. Memory assessment is important for establishing cognitive impairment …

Exploring the contribution of spatial navigation to cognitive functioning in older adults

J Laczó, R Andel, Z Nedelska, M Vyhnalek, K Vlcek… - Neurobiology of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Spatial navigation (SN) impairment is present early in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We tested
whether SN performance, self-centered (egocentric) and world-centered (allocentric), was …

Two immersive virtual reality tasks for the assessment of spatial orientation in older adults with and without cognitive impairment: concurrent validity, group comparison …

RQM Da Costa, JE Pompeu, E Moretto… - Journal of the …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Objective: Spatial disorientation is common in Alzheimer's disease (AD), Mild Cognitive
Impairment (MCI), and preclinical individuals with AD biomarkers. However, traditional …