London - A simple memory test could give a two-year warning before Alzheimer’s disease strikes.
Showing a patient landscape pictures can give doctors an accurate assessment of problems in their brain, University of Cambridge scientists claim.
Known as the Four Mountains test, patients are shown a picture of a mountain landscape and asked to identify it again in four further landscapes, one of which shows the mountain range from a different angle.
Results of trials suggest the test could be 93 percent accurate.
There are no treatments that slow the progression of Alzheimer’s, but medications in development will work best if given at an early stage of the disease.
Daily Mail