Game shows that ability to navigate declines from young age
CNNEditor’s Note: Vital Signs is a monthly program bringing viewers health stories from around the world. Story highlights A mobile game called "Sea Hero Quest" tracks spatial awareness among users Doctors will use the data to help diagnose dementia CNN — A mobile game has revealed the navigational skills of people around the world in a bid to develop an accurate test for dementia. “We’re discovering some basic principles about humans,” Spiers said, adding that this gender and cultural insight all feeds into identifying global norms and when people may be deviating from them due to dementia. But this could be about to change – depending the next stages of data analyzed from “Sea Hero Quest.” “ can tell us, how do people get lost?” Spiers said. “Fundamentally, people with dementia – Alzheimer’s dementia – struggle to navigate, and on a scientific level, we don’t know enough of how people navigate to help really pin down what’s going wrong,” he said.
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