New Test Could Tell if You Have Early Signs of Dementia With High Accuracy

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, there are a myriad of ways that researchers are trying to detect dementia long before it sets in – and those studies are all just from the past six months.

So far, 526 people have tested the screening tool, a 46-item questionnaire from which their cognition is scored across six domains: memory, language, orientation, attention and concentration,Called the 'McCusker Subjective Cognitive Impairment Inventory', the tool captures people's concerns about their current mental capacity.

The questions were pulled from previously published questionnaires on subjective cognitive decline and designed to reflect other aspects of mild cognitive impairment reported in studies of early Alzheimer's disease and dementia that those prior questionnaires didn't capture.

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