New online tool aims to diagnose dementia faster

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Researchers have developed a free online tool to help diagnose dementia and provide targeted treatment faster. 9News

University of Sydney researchers have created an online calculator which is meant to help diagnose what type of primary progressive aphasia, a type of dementia that causes you to lose language skills, someone is suffering.

The test identifies the different symptoms that the patient has filled out in the cognitive test which then correlates with the brain regions that are most impaired. For Jane Dean's husband Stephen, it took two years to receive the diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia that has robbed his ability to speak.

 

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