New Test Promises Earlier Detection of Dementia Onset

A new test promises to predict whether someone will get dementia, almost a decade before diagnosis. An international research team, including Associate Professor Adeel Razi from Melbourne’s Monash University, have developed a new method for predicting dementia with over 80 percent accuracy.  It also allows researchers to identify dementia up to nine years before diagnosis, paving the way for proactive and personalised healthcare strategies Different from the commonly used methods for diagnosing dementia such as memory tests or measurements of brain shrinkage, researchers have developed the predictive test by analysing functional MRI tests to detect changes in the brain’s “default mode network”....