Forbes November 6, 2024
November is National Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, a time to reflect on how emerging technologies can address the urgent need for brain health and dementia prevention. The latest advancements in AI for Alzheimer’s research are promising. AI models now achieve over 90% accuracy in detecting Alzheimer’s from brain scans, and even predict Alzheimer’s disease up to seven years before symptoms appear. Speech recognition technologies also show potential for early risk detection. But there is more.
According to the Lancet Commission’s 2020 report, almost 40% of dementia cases could be preventable through lifestyle modifications, and its recent 2024 update provides new evidence on risk factors and prevention. This means two things – on the one hand, each of us can take proactive...