Mobile Game Attempts To Diagnose Alzheimer's 21
the_newsbeagle writes "Currently, the best way to check if a person has a high likelihood of developing Alzheimer's is to perform a PET scan to measure the amount of amyloid plaque in his or her brain. That's an expensive procedure. But a startup called Akili Interactive says it has developed a mobile game that can identify likely Alzheimer's patients just by their gameplay and game results. The game is based on a neuroscience study which showed that multitasking is one of the first brain functions to take a hit in Alzheimer's patients. Therefore the game requires players to perform two tasks at the same time."
not really far fetched at all (Score:2, Informative)
the tests for concussions and MTBI seem a lot like hand/eye games.
like 30 minutes of maddening little games.
troops do them now before and after deployments.