How Wearable Tech Could Enhance Alzheimer's Research
From: R&D Magazine - 02/24/2017

An e-cognitive health initiative called the, "Precision Monitoring of
Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease: Framingham Study of Cognitive Epidemiology".

The goal of an e-cognitive health initiative called the "Precision Monitoring
of Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease: Framingham Study of Cognitive
Epidemiology”, is to use wearable devices and other technology to collect
large troves of data from participants over time, in an effort to pinpoint
potential physical changes that could be associated with cognitive decline.
About 2,200 people will be participating in this venture beginning in April
2017 with a projected end date of sometime in 2020.

The study team has collected over 75,000 voice recordings since 2005 to
monitor voice biomarkers that could potentially show changes in speech
patterns. The researchers also started giving digital pens to participants in
2013 to aggregate information on changes in writing performance.

They have been collecting sleep information through a device by Sleep Image
since 2015, which is an EKG-based home sleep monitoring device. Over 900
participants have agreed to use it so far.

In April they will start to use DANA - a smartphone cognitive application
created by Anthrotronix to measure cognitive performance in the home.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.rdmag.com/article/2017/02/how-wearable-tech-could-enhance-alzheimers-research

Links:
Researcher uses wearable devices to look for clues to early dementia and
  Alzheimer's
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-02-wearable-devices-clues-early-dementia.html

Wearing Your Brain on Your Sleeve
https://www.bu.edu/research/articles/wearing-your-brain-on-your-sleeve

DANA
http://danabrainvital.com