Alzheimerâs Prediction May Be Found in Writing Tests
IBM researchers trained artificial intelligence to pick up hints of changes in language ahead of the onset of neurological diseases.
An M.R.I. scan of a patient over the age of 60 with Alzheimerâs disease.Credit...Zephyr/Science Source
Feb. 1, 2021
According to a new study by IBM researchers, the answer is yes.
And, they and others say that Alzheimerâs is just the beginning. People with a wide variety of neurological illnesses have distinctive language patterns that, investigators suspect, may serve as early warning signs of their diseases.
For the Alzheimerâs study, the researchers looked at a group of 80 men and women in their 80s â half had Alzheimerâs and the others did not. But, seven and a half years earlier, all had been cognitively normal.