VREAD: A Virtual Simulation to Investigate Cognitive Function in the Elderly

Recent studies have shown that people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) may convert to Alzheimer's disease (AD) over time although not all MCI cases progress to dementia. The diagnosis of MCI is important to allow prompt treatment and disease management before the neurons degenerate to a sta...

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Main Authors: Shamsuddin, S. N. W., Ugail, H., Lesk, V., Walters, E.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Dementia
Diagnosis
Games
Senior citizens
Virtual environments
Virtual Simulation
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Summary:Recent studies have shown that people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) may convert to Alzheimer's disease (AD) over time although not all MCI cases progress to dementia. The diagnosis of MCI is important to allow prompt treatment and disease management before the neurons degenerate to a stage beyond repair. Hence, the ability to obtain a method of identifying MCI is of great importance. VREAD is a quick, easy and friendly tool that was developed with an aim to investigate cognitive functioning in a group of healthy elderly and those with MCI. It focuses on the task of following a route, since Topographical Disorientation (TD) is common in AD. The results shows that this novel simulation was able to predict with about 90% overall accuracy using weighting function proposed to discriminate between MCI and healthy elderly.
DOI:10.1109/CW.2012.37