In “Al -Jazeera”, we offer health news tour and medical research for Thursday, January 30, 2025:
A single -minute video game diagnoses autism
We start our tour with the development of video game scientists that can discover whether the child has 80%autism, and the game is called the computerized motor imitation assessment (CAMI), and it asks children to imitate the dance movements of a character on the screen for one minute.
The game has developed researchers from the University of Nottingham Trent in Britain and the Kennedy Crager Institute in the United States, and the Daily Mail was written about.
The researchers found that the game was able to distinguish between autism and attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity (ADHD), with a resolution of 70 percent.
They said this is important because it is common for children to suffer from both cases, and it may be difficult for experts to distinguish between symptoms.
Warning from Alzheimer’s treatment, $ 75,000
We remain in Britain, where experts have warned that the new Alzheimer’s drug, Dunanimab, which costs 60,000 pounds – 75 thousand dollars – annually, which is said to be the first treatment to slow the progress of memory theft, is a fraud that leads to “minimal” benefits on Calculating fatal risks, according to a report in the Daily Mail.
Dunanimab was welcomed as a “new hope” in fighting dementia, after research indicated that it has slowed the disease of stealing memory in its early stages.
Now, one of the clinics in London has become the first in Europe to provide the drug to patients in particular for an “amazing” annual amount, after the British National Health Services Authority refused to finance it.
Not only that the cost is “amazing”, but patients may risk “serious and irreversible complications,” said Professor Rob Howard, an expert in aging medicine at the University of College London.
“About 40% of patients who are treated with this category of medications are infected with swelling and bleeding in the brain,” he said.
“For most people, this is not very dangerous. But there are about 1% of cases that can face severe side effects, including strokes and death.”
Benefits of speaking in multiple languages
We move to the United States, where a new research from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Miami University indicated that encouraging dual -language at home can have many cognitive benefits, which may be especially beneficial for children with autism spectrum disorder.
The researchers found that children who speak two or more languages often have stronger executive skills, and this means that they are able to control motivations and switch between different tasks more easily than children who speak only one language.
The study was published in the Autism Research Journal, and the Yurrick Alert website was written about.
Colesterol fluctuation is linked to the risk of developing dementia
We go to Australia, where a recent study concluded that the elderly who change their cholesterol level over time may be more likely to develop dementia, compared to people with stable cholesterol level, regardless of the actual cholesterol level.
The study was conducted by researchers from the University of Monash in Melbourne, Australia, published in the Neurology Journal, the Medical Journal of the American Academy of Neuroscience, and wrote about the Yorik Alrt website.
The study does not prove that changing cholesterol causes dementia; It only appears in connection.
“These results indicate that the volatile cholesterol, which is measured annually, may serve as a new vital index to identify people at risk of dementia, providing more information than the actual cholesterol levels that are measured at one time point,” said the author of the study, Dr. Chen Chu.