New color-wheels help diagnose Alzheimer's Disease

[Happyflowerlady]

Doctor's studying how alzheimers works in the human brain think that they may have come up with a better way to determine whether the patient has the disease, or is just aging and has memory loss. At this time, AD can only be determined positively by doing an autopsy, which obviously does not do the patient any good at all. Other forms of dementia are often treatable, some by simply taking B-complex supplements, but at this time, no complete treatment for AD has been found.
Since most doctors just make a diagnosis of AD, many treatable people are simply left to deteriorate until they are moved to nursing homes, and eventually die.
The new method of determining whether it is AD involves using pictures of wheels, and the patient has to identify which ones are matches. It is related to how we identify people, and when we see them, we know their name; which is stored in a separate part of the brain.

http://seniorjournal.com/NEWS/Alzhe...ish_Alzheimer's_Disease_from_Normal_Aging.htm

 

[d0ug]

The link is not working
Typical doctors they can name something and find a way to diagnosis it but when it comes to cureing it they don't have a clue.
Like most all chronic diseases.

 

[d0ug]

It is working now
I guess just a bad day

 

[Meanderer]

"Participants were shown a circle divided into three parts, each having a unique design. Similar to the process of name-and-face binding, the hippocampus works to bind these three pieces of the circle together. After the participants studied a circle, they would pick its exact match from a series of 10 circles, presented one at a time."


That would make it more difficult. Would the kid's game "What's different in this picture"exercise have the same benefit?