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researchers treat dementia iPad application

2013 ? 07 ? 06 ? 13:55:02 | Editor: Xu Yan | Source: Sohu Digital

Dementia is a significant loss in the overall perception of the disease, often suffer from the elderly. Patients affected sensing function including attention, memory, language, and problem-solving abilities. In the present, the medical profession has not the treatment of cognitive disorders effects of drugs, but the Cambridge Cognition and their new iPad application may be able to open up new ideas for the treatment of dementia.

Generally speaking, the doctor dementia test takes about three years time, but through the use of Cantab applications, this process is shortened to 10 minutes. This application is used by the University of Cambridge technology research and development, will the patient’s emotional dysfunction and tested and rated for doctors to better understand the patient’s condition and treatment plan. But Cambridge Cognition representation, Cantab only used for the initial diagnosis.

Cantab supports 20 languages, and the test results will be encrypted in order to be safely stored in the patient’s case were. Currently, Cantab to be used in the UK cases have more than 10.