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HTTP:: MIND Project Yields New Alzheimer 039 s Detection Method
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Spain began in 2008 the national MIND project, an initiative aimed at approaching Alzheimer's disease from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Valued at 27 million euros, it comprises some twelve biomedicine companies and their corresponding, public, research organizations, and is scheduled to last for about four years. As part of this project, experts at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI), in Castello, have begun work on a new, early-detection method for the neurodegenerative disease, which relies on brain scans made with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines. UJI Professor Vicente Belloch says that, within a year or so, the university research group has already developed “a proposal of functional resonance protocol that establishes what technical details must be followed to better study memory in Alzheimer patients. The complexity involved here is to design tasks that stimulate immediate memory exactly, which is the specific brain area that we want to study.” In charge!
of the investigations are experts from the Department of Basic and Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, which run their tests on volunteers wearing headphones and glasses. Each of the participants is subjected to a series of stimuli while inside an MRI machine, as experts try to determine the underlying mechanisms ...
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