Can Handwriting Speed Forecast Cognitive Decline?
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Detecting Alzheimer's disease before the first memory loss with a pen and a digital tablet — this is the path that a team at the University of Évora in Portugal is exploring. Their study reveals that the way a person written under dictation betrays signs of cognitive decline invisible to the naked eye: features more [...]
Although a shaky or slow handwriting alone is not a warning signal, dictation can show differences between cognitively impaired and healthy elderly people.
New research by Portuguese scientists from the University of Evora shows that simple exercises for writing text by hand have a high potential to create reliable and accessible tests that will detect abnormalities in the functioning of the brain.
Early detection of cognitive decline due to Alzheimer's disease and other conditions brings significant advantages to subsequent diagnosis, treatment, and support. A new study targeting older adults has shown that "handwriting" may be an indicator of cognitive decline.
A study by Portuguese researchers found that certain areas of the brain become overloaded when a person with dementia has to write by hand.
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