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The new tool could spot dementia with a scan of your brain (Image: Getty)The field of dementia diagnosis has gone through a revolution in the past few years, as breakthroughs in medical science and emerging technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence promise huge leaps forward in some of our most crippling and debilitating diseases.
This week, a combination of machine learning and the decade-long Biobank project examining the health of thousands of Brits made a fresh breakthrough in dementia diagnosis, that promises to be able to spot common dementia signs up to nine years before people are typically diagnosed. After reviewing over 1000 MRI scans, researchers say their test is more than 80 per cent accurate, in preliminary testing.
What is entirely new about this test is that it measures signs in your brain while it is daydreaming. But, in a world with regular breakthroughs in medical technology and an ever-higher prevalence of neurodegenerative disorders like dementia, experts at Medical News Today spoke to expert neurologists and researchers to find out just how useful this new test could be, and found one major problem.
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