PharmaTimes March 4, 2024
Around 900,000 people in the UK are affected by the progressive neurodegenerative disease
Researchers from University College London (UCL), in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, have revealed that impaired spatial navigation could determine the risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) before the onset of symptoms.
Published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, researchers used virtual reality (VR) to test the spatial navigation of 100 asymptomatic adults from the PREVENT-Dementia study.
Affecting around 900.000 people in the UK, AD is a neurodegenerative disorder that progressively destroys memory, thinking skills and the ability to carry out simple day-to-day tasks.
Researchers recruited adults aged between 43 and 66 years who had a hereditary or physiological risk of AD related...
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