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Early signs of dementia can be detected by tracking driving behaviors
New Atlas ^ | 28 April 2021 | Rich Haridy

Posted on 04/29/2021 9:45:44 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

... the researchers claim it could be possible in the future to detect early signs of dementia using either a smartphone app or devices incorporated into car software systems.

Over the course of the LongROAD study, 33 subjects were diagnosed with MCI (mild cognitive impairment) and 31 with dementia. A series of machine learning models were trained on the LongROAD data, tasked with detecting MCI and dementia from driving behaviors.

Nevertheless, the study does point to intriguing future scenarios where a smartphone app, or software inside a car, can constantly monitor your driving patterns to offer clues for early detection of cognitive decline before clinical symptoms become apparent

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KEYWORDS: ajoke; dementia; driving
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Renew your driver's license and a mandatory dementia test!

For your own good. If it saves just one life!

1 posted on 04/29/2021 9:45:44 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Yeah, that’s not going to be abused...


2 posted on 04/29/2021 9:48:35 AM PDT by Mr. Rabbit
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To: DUMBGRUNT
You might have dimentia if...


3 posted on 04/29/2021 9:52:14 AM PDT by DannyTN
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4 posted on 04/29/2021 9:53:11 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DUMBGRUNT

If you are looking to see dementia on the roadways, just take a drive on Rt 95 in the Miami area.


5 posted on 04/29/2021 9:53:59 AM PDT by HandyDandy
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I’ve read that a good test for dementia is the clock test. Draw a circle, then put a dot in the center. Do not put in any numbers. Then ask the subject to draw the hour and second hands to match a time, say 4:45.

Is this a good test for early dementia? I don’t know. I’m just passing it along.


6 posted on 04/29/2021 9:54:26 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
I always knew my phone was secretly spying on me.

It knows where I am at any time, and who I call. Its mike can be turned on remotely to record any conversation I might have.
Soon it will be monitoring my temperature, breathing, my driving habits, blood chemistry, whatever.
When it tells me I'm not eating my vegetables, that's when I get violent.

7 posted on 04/29/2021 10:03:33 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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I’ve also heard a good test for early dementia is when someone is confused between the minute hand and the second hand.

(lol)


8 posted on 04/29/2021 10:03:55 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Actual FR Quote: “I ain’t getting no Covid Vaccine. I’d rather get Covid and DIE before I get a jab.)
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My Church, Bank, Grocery store, shooting range, Sam's club, gas station, hardware store, shopping mall, are ALL within 15 miles of home ROUND TRIP!

AND, I'm retired, so that data point is BOGUS!

9 posted on 04/29/2021 10:09:01 AM PDT by G Larry (Force the Universities to use their TAX FREE ENDOWMENTS to pay off Student loan debt!!!)
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10 posted on 04/29/2021 10:16:43 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: Leaning Right

Actually, the test is to have them draw the “hour” numbers around the clock, not a specific time. People with neurological conditions will often draw them very lopsided, like all the numbers on one side of the clock, or all bunched up, instead of evenly spread around the clock.


11 posted on 04/29/2021 10:21:30 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Detecting early signs of dementia by driving behavior?
If that's the case, there are drivers near me who have dementia in their 20s, 30s, and 40s.
12 posted on 04/29/2021 10:23:45 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Cognitive decline isn’t the only factor in bad driving by old folks. Our family finally took the keys away from my aunt when she was 85 and still driving to work.

She was sharp as a tack even into her 90s but her eyesight was terrible. She would pull out into traffic not even noticing the other cars. We told her if you don’t care about yourself at least consider the other people you might kill or injure permanently. That finally got through to her.


13 posted on 04/29/2021 10:24:39 AM PDT by DeFault User
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“Early signs of dementia can be detected by tracking driving behaviors”

Early signs of dementia can qualify you for free room and board at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.


14 posted on 04/29/2021 10:28:17 AM PDT by Stosh
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One of the first things they lose is analytical skills. If you ask them the date, they not only can’t tell you, they don’t know how to find out the date even with a newspaper in their lap. My aunt took her friend to the hospital and couldn’t find it even with the signs directing her to the hospital. If you ask them for the time, they don’t know how to do it even with a digital clock because they don’t know to look at the clock to get the time.

Another sign is the inability to learn lessons. They will fall for the same scams over and over. I have a friend doing this now. She won’t stop answering her phone when she doesn’t recognize the number and she will obey their every command because she can’t do the analysis to figure out if she should do it. It’s easier to just follow along.

One of the worst things you can do for Dementia is watch TV.


15 posted on 04/29/2021 10:34:54 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: G Larry

So your phone will record how many times you walked around those places trying to remember where you parked.


16 posted on 04/29/2021 10:35:30 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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Early signs of dementia can be detected by tracking driving behaviors

Also by observing your "trolling for chicks" behaviors.

17 posted on 04/29/2021 10:37:59 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Leaning Right

AM or PM?


18 posted on 04/29/2021 10:41:00 AM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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In the '80s I was once talking to a well regarded neurologist who was on the teaching staff at a local medical college, and who had a national reputation for having written several popular books on the subject. He told me then that one could diagnose many neurological problems and deficits from just observing a subject's driving behavior.

I have always believed this, and I have never been shy about calling those who obstruct my passage with their poor driving "morons".

19 posted on 04/29/2021 10:41:48 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: Leaning Right

Very few teens nowadays could successfully do that. Early dementia or digital cultural changes?


20 posted on 04/29/2021 10:43:29 AM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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