Test to detect Alzheimer's disease very early
(picture-based test)
(picture-based test)
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Cambridge Cognition, a spin-out of the University, today announced its plans to launch the GP version of their memory test to aid early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. The company is based on the ground-breaking work of University of Cambridge neuropsychologists Professors Trevor Robbins and Barbara Sahakian who co-invented the original test, the Paired Associates Learning test or PAL. (They are currently consultants for Cambridge Cognition.)
The company markets touch-screen neuropsychological tests , known as CANTAB®, and these have been used in over 500 universities, institutes and hospitals in over 50 countries around the world as well as for research published in over 700 peer-reviewed publications. The first mobile-platform version of one of these tests, CANTAB Mobile, will be widely available to GPs in less than a year following successful trials in NHS primary and secondary care settings. The test will allow GPs to triage patients presenting memory problems quickly, simply and accurately.
The test gets progressively harder. Participants first have to remember where a single symbol flashed up, in one of six possible boxes, while at the end they are asked to recall where six symbols were.
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