A New Instrument for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease

  • Muraoka, Tetsuya (Department of Industrial Electronics Engineering, Polytechnic University in Tokyo) ;
  • Nagata, Tomohiro (Department of Industrial Design, Polytechnic University in Tokyo)
  • Published : 2003.10.22

Abstract

The paper describes a new instrument for early detection of Alzheimer's disease. A new instrument for early detection of Alzheimer's disease is constructed on both the questionnaire for the investigation of living environment, and the lists for the functional tests of the sense, the physiology, and the left and right brains. When the medical doctor has made a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, the demented patient does not recover the indication adding available treatments. Then, the indication of a patient only takes a turn for the worse. For the demented patient can be kept his/her life style, Alzheimer's disease can make an early detection using a new instrument before a diagnosis of the dementia. And the indication of a demented patient can be delayed by the available medical treatments.

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