Five questions that reveal sings of early-stage Alzheimer: research
U.S. researchers developed a 15-minute test that reveals the first signs of mental decline as well as helps to track and treat Alzheimer early.
More than 1.000 people, aged over 1.000, took the test and the results showed that 28% of them suffered from mental decline as well as partial memory loss.
The questions range from simple feats of memory – writing the date, for example – to more complex everyday tasks, such as working out the amount of change needed when shopping.
According to scientists that conducted the research, the test does not diagnose the disease, but it allows doctors to easily track changes in a patient's cognitive skills by observing how their answers change over time.
'We can give them the test periodically and, the moment we notice any changes in their cognitive abilities, we can intervene much more rapidly', Dr Douglas Scharre, director of cognitive neurology at Ohio State University, said.
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