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A video game might prove a useful Alzheimer’s screening tool, study suggests

  • Rebecca Robbins

By Rebecca Robbins Dec. 9, 2016

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Akili CEO Eddie Martucci (right) talks about one of the company's video games with Jeff Bower, Akili's director of data science. Dina Rudick/The Boston Globe

As experimental drugs continue to fail in Alzheimer’s patients, research interest has increasingly shifted to finding a way to stop the disease long before it erodes people’s cognitive abilities.

But how do you identify the right people to target?

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Rebecca Robbins

Rebecca Robbins

Health Tech Correspondent

Rebecca covers health technology. She is the co-author of the newsletter STAT Health Tech.

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