Every two minutes spent playing the game is equal to five hours of lab-based research.
A smartphone game available for Android and iOS has generated the equivalent of 1,700 years of research into Alzheimer’s disease.
In it, players must take control of a ship and make their way around mazes made up of islands and icebergs. The team studied gaming data taken from 27,108 UK players aged between 50-75 – the most vulnerable age-group to develop Alzheimer’s in the next decade. They compared this benchmark data with a smaller lab-based group of 60 people who underwent genetic testing.Lead researcher Prof Michael Hornberger, from UEA’s Norwich Medical School, said: ‘Dementia will affect 135 million people worldwide by 2050. We need to identify people earlier to reduce their risk of developing dementia in the future.
‘Meanwhile, those without the APOE4 gene travelled roughly the same distance as the 27,000 people forming the baseline score. This difference in performance was particularly pronounced where the space to navigate was large and open.’
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