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Sea Hero Quest

Gaming That Helps Scientists Fight Dimentia


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Hunter's comment

Playing this game for 2 minutes gathers the data about your brain that would take scientists 5 hours to gather by conventional methods.

I mean if that doesn't say it all. What a rad way to spend your down time!

According to their website, there is a new case of dementia every 3 seconds- that's mind-blowing if I'm honest.

"One of the first symptoms of dementia is loss of navigational skills. Doctors cannot differentiate between getting lost caused by disease and getting lost caused by natural ageing because a benchmark of “normal” does not exist.

"Until now … because as you play, your navigational data is tracked anonymously, stored securely and combined with every other player from around the globe, to create the world’s largest crowd sourced data set benchmarking human spatial navigation. This incredible resource will eventually lead to the development of new diagnosis tools and treatments for dementia. "-source

I'm grabbing this app for IOS as we speak, it's free, and it actually looks pretty fun, as if you needed another reason to play!

(Now if we could only figure out a useful way to use that Fortnite data... ;))


Link

http://www.seaheroquest.com/?ref=steemhunt


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