Karen, this is for you:
RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Tokyo, the world’s largest research centre devoted exclusively to the study of mentality & intelligence has set goals for themselves by 2017 to have a complete understanding of Parkinson’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy and Down’s syndrome, and treatments for all of them.
Someday soon, your doctor will slip a bonnet on your head and it will announce the first warning signs of dementia or disease. Or it will be placed on your newborn’s crown at birth and the printout will reveal whether she’s on her way to Oxford, or Kingston Pen.
Andrej Cichocki, the head of RIKEN’s Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal processing, says ‘in the near future, we will be able to screen someone at 55 and predict Alzheimer’s disease with high probability. Predict, yes, but not cure. But we can give you a first warning – in time to maybe change your diet, maybe change your lifestyle, maybe yoga.’
RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Tokyo, the world’s largest research centre devoted exclusively to the study of mentality & intelligence has set goals for themselves by 2017 to have a complete understanding of Parkinson’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy and Down’s syndrome, and treatments for all of them.
Someday soon, your doctor will slip a bonnet on your head and it will announce the first warning signs of dementia or disease. Or it will be placed on your newborn’s crown at birth and the printout will reveal whether she’s on her way to Oxford, or Kingston Pen.
Andrej Cichocki, the head of RIKEN’s Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal processing, says ‘in the near future, we will be able to screen someone at 55 and predict Alzheimer’s disease with high probability. Predict, yes, but not cure. But we can give you a first warning – in time to maybe change your diet, maybe change your lifestyle, maybe yoga.’
posted by Priscilla Parizeau at 10:24 a.m.
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