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Study: Brain training games could be used to assess cognitive abilities, replace the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE)

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The Use of Mobile Games to Assess Cog­ni­tive Func­tion of Elder­ly with and with­out Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment (Jour­nal of Alzheimer’s Disease):

Abstract: In the past few years numer­ous mobile games have been devel­oped to train the brain. There is a lack of infor­ma­tion about the rela­tion between the scores obtained in these games and the cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties of the patients. The aim of this study was to deter­mine whether or not mobile games can be used to assess cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties of elder­ly. Twen­ty healthy young adults, 29 old patients with cog­ni­tive impair­ments (Mini-Men­tal State Exam (MMSE) [Read more…] about Study: Brain train­ing games could be used to assess cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties, replace the Mini-Men­tal State Exam (MMSE)

On the value and the limits of cognitive screening, as seen in President Trump’s examination

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Exam­ple clocks, cour­tesy of William Souil­lard-Man­dar et al (2015)

In the News:

Why you may be mis­un­der­stand­ing the men­tal test that Trump passed with fly­ing col­ors (The Wash­ing­ton Post):

“On its sur­face, the Mon­tre­al Cog­ni­tive Assess­ment (MoCA) test seems pret­ty easy. Can you draw a three-dimen­sion­al cube? Can you iden­ti­fy these var­i­ous ani­mals? Can you draw a clock? Can you repeat back the phrase, “The cat always hid under the couch when dogs were in the room”?…The point is not that the test is easy. The point is that an inabil­i­ty to com­plete aspects of the test reveals dif­fer­ent types of men­tal decline. [Read more…] about On the val­ue and the lim­its of cog­ni­tive screen­ing, as seen in Pres­i­dent Trump’s examination

Harnessing brain training games to better research, prevent and treat Alzheimer’s Disease

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Brain Train­ing Data­base: Trea­sure Trove for Pre­clin­i­cal Alzheimer’s Research? (Alz­fo­rum):

“Some researchers think brain games in general—which adapt to each user’s cog­ni­tive ability—may one day serve as cog­ni­tive diag­nos­tics to [Read more…] about Har­ness­ing brain train­ing games to bet­ter research, pre­vent and treat Alzheimer’s Disease

Update: Connecting technology, healthy living, healthcare, concussions, and the Brain

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Time for Sharp­Brains’ Sep­tem­ber 2012 eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing lead­ing-edge research and insights to help con­nect the dots among tech­nol­o­gy, healthy liv­ing, healthare, con­cus­sions, and–our protagonist–the brain.

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Tech­nol­o­gy & the Brain:

Healthy Liv­ing & the Brain:

Health­care & the Brain:

Con­cus­sions & the Brain:

Have a great month of October!

Pic cour­tesy of Big­Stock­Pho­to

MMSE®/MMSE®-2™ Cognitive Impairment Screener, Now a Mobile App

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The MMSE®/MMSE®-2™ Cog­ni­tive Impair­ment Screen­er Goes Mobile in New App (press release):

“One of the world’s most pop­u­lar and trust­ed assess­ments of cog­ni­tive impair­ment is now avail­able as a con­ve­nient app for smart­phones and tablets. Like the paper-and-pen­cil ver­sion, the app can be used to screen for cog­ni­tive impair­ment, to select patients for clin­i­cal tri­als research in demen­tia treat­ment, or to track patients’ progress over time.”

To Learn More:

Cardiac Surgery Can Impact Long-term Cognitive Functioning, Suggesting Need for Monitoring and Rehab

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Post-Op Delir­i­um’s Toll on Men­tal Func­tion May Linger: Study (US News):

“Delir­i­um after car­diac surgery has been thought of as a brief, reversible con­di­tion, but new research is sug­gest­ing that [men­tal] recov­ery for some peo­ple may take much longer than thought, and that there are long-term cog­ni­tive con­se­quences,” said study co-lead author Jane Saczyn­s­ki, [Read more…] about Car­diac Surgery Can Impact Long-term Cog­ni­tive Func­tion­ing, Sug­gest­ing Need for Mon­i­tor­ing and Rehab