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111| Clinical Case 15 (Adult; Posterior Cortical Atrophy) – A Conversation With Dr. Wendy Kelso

Navigating Neuropsychology

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The Role of Language in Early PCA

As the disease progresses and there's more burden of pathology in the other corticis of the brain, it tends to look more like typical amnestic Alzheimer's disease. We speed another thing over time where it becomes more of a global dementia process. And I think while Amyloid Pet is really useful to determine whether PCA is caused by Alzheimer's pathology, it's not very specific. So people with an amnestic form of Alzheimer's disease and also a posterior variant or a language variant, Amylid Pet looks quite similar in each of these conditions.

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