Reply With QuoteI did it fairly quickly, but I have a funny feeling I will get dementia or a stroke in the next decade. I'm being serious and not trying to ridicule either problems.
****MOVING PUZZLE****
If you can put this puzzle together, you can say goodbye to Alzheimer's!
This is really clever and a bit challenging.This puzzle may help dispel some fear.
It's easy to put together if you are not affected by Alzheimer's disease, but impossible to do for someone with the disease.Give it a try.
If this puzzle is particularly difficult for you, then your physician can offer you additional testing to check you for Alzheimer's.
Just remember, if you can put this puzzle together you do not have to fear Alzheimer's!
A really neat puzzle!!
http://www.brl.ntt.co.jp/people/hara/fly.swf
I did it fairly quickly, but I have a funny feeling I will get dementia or a stroke in the next decade. I'm being serious and not trying to ridicule either problems.
I made it! Pretty cool idea :-)
Quite baffling at first but put it together fairly quickly after that!
Grab all the pieces and take them out of the central frame then it's just easy-peasy. Does this really work as a test for Alzheimer's? Surely it's more of a left-right brain test...?
Worth the post - good one
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Thankfully easy.
+1Originally Posted by Glamdring
Phew!
Spread the bits out and it's fairly obvious.
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
I did it this morning for the first time. Straight forward.
Then I remembered I did it yesterday as well.
Geez? Why?
I was going to take the test, but I've forgotten where I saw the link
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
I showed this to my wife who does quite a lot of work with people with Alzheimer's (she's Head Of Neuropsychology at a large Regional Neurosciences Unit and also has a Professorship at the attached university). Although tests like this are a bit of fun, she's concerned that anybody might be worried about interpreting the results of what is a overly-simplistic test for quite a complex disease.
She asked me to post this:
The puzzle is a nice bit of fun and beautifully programmed – but please do not take it seriously. I really wish that it was THAT easy to diagnose Alzheimer’s (or any of the other nasty degenerative brain diseases).
Pass the puzzle? You do not have Posterior Cortical Atrophy (the disorder that Terry Pratchett has), but you could have one of the many other types of degenerative brain conditions (including Alzheimer's) that do not affect visuospatial perception.
Fail the puzzle? Some people are word specialists and just don’t “get” spatial challenges anyway or at any time. Failure does not necessarily mean you have got anything wrong with you.
If you have been good with this type of thinking in the past you could also fail because you're stressed, depressed, or if you have had a stroke or head injury. None of these? Getting into a tangle with your clothes in the morning and losing the car in the car park, repeating yourself in conversation or getting stuck with your words? Then have a chat with your GP.
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