When it comes to the onset of early Alzheimer’s disease, a person with family and friends are safe at the first sign of difficulties identified by screening artsen to traditional, new research results can be.

Discovery reported online in the journal Brain, based on the apparent accuracy of the observations of family and friends in response to a carefully designed questionnaire, the dementia is available in several languages, and has been used worldwide in hospitals.

Make sure that the name of dementia 8 (or AD8), the questionnaire designed for comments on the opinion of someone, the level of activity, learning ability, forgetfulness, back and thinking in particular here.

Response from family and friends to the questionnaire within two minutes can be completed, it seems correlated with biological indicators of Alzheimer’s disease than standard medical tests, the researchers found.

They analyzed data questionnaires to more than 250 people who had completed the traditional predictions dementia and spinal fluid tests and brain scans look for markers of plaque disease.

“Sees AD8 Based on our results, conventional tests look good on the ability to identify the early signs of dementia, said co-author Dr. John C. Morris, director of the Knight of the Alzheimer’s Research Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, in a press release by the University.

“He could not tell us whether dementia by Alzheimer’s or other conditions caused, but let us know if you need more comprehensive assessment of the question,” he said.

Morris also suggested the technique of the questionnaire for the quick response to the economic and financial barriers for all potential patients with markers of Alzheimer’s disease tests can be used.

“We AD8 is a brief low-cost alternatives for increasing a few minutes … screening of dementia and to identify individuals that need to follow up evaluations, if it really determine signs of Alzheimer’s disease,” he said.

can family, member-driven and observations are based on regular contact, they also give a better idea of the progress of the disease, he said, because a test in the doctor’s office is only a snapshot of the state of a person, a unique performance on the time.

“This information can us a retrospective view, we know that a person’s mental abilities began to decline significantly, indicating that further testing is needed,” Morris said.