Alzhemeir The Money Test Is The Spy Of Neurological Decay Here's What To Do If You Can't Do These

A test to anticipate, detect and measure dementia? There is Finally.

And it is related to money Or, better, the relationship the patient has with money.

The discovery is not only revolutionary because it relates the cognitive impairment of the brain to the relationship we have with our wallet, but above all because it allows us to cure the patient, avoiding worse troubles The discovery bears the name of Dr.

Francesca Burgio, 37, who directs the Neuropsychology Service and the connected Neuropsychology Laboratory at the San Camillo Institute on the Lido in Venice, which carries out field research Psychotherapist, degree in Padua, PhD in neuroscience, specialist in neuropsychology, Dr.

Ssa Burgio, Sicilian from Palermo, is at the Irccs (Institute of hospitalization and treatment of a scientific nature) San Camillo since 2012 It is a center of excellence recognized throughout Europe and constantly financed by the Ministry of Health which has just written a check also to finance this new research.

Depression, here is the algorithm that predicts anxiety and psychological disorders At the supermarket «We realized from observing daily life that there was something we hadn't yet investigated sufficiently I'm referring to the elderly lady who takes her wallet at the supermarket and says to the saleswoman: "Do it yourself".

How have we interpreted this scene so far?" Most of the time with annoyance, sometimes with pity, sometimes at most with the understanding that is meant for those who are getting on in years And instead behind this skit there is a fundamental discovery and that is that "one of the indicators of neurological decay due to neurodegenerative or cerebrovascular diseases and pathological cognitive aging is precisely the relationship with money".

The test And it's not just a matter of years , dementia is not always senile, since sometimes a stroke is enough to put us in the position of no longer being able to understand anything about money "Even if perhaps until the day before we were financial wizards" - comments Francesca Burgio who is starting from granny at the supermarket "to study the autonomy that a person has when he has to manage this fundamental sphere of everyday life which is the ability to understand the value of money".

A problem that many scholars around the world have asked themselves "We have developed a test, the Nadl-f (Numerical activities of daily living financial) - he adds - able to tell us whether or not a person is able to manage his money independently".

It starts from the simple recognition of the sizes, pieces of 10 euros, 50, coins of 1 euro and then moves on to counting Then to more complex tasks such as the ability to attribute a correct value to something you want to buy.

Then gradually we move on to more and more complex concepts, what is the Iban, for example and finally the patient is invited to express an opinion on a certain situation to see if he is inclined to believe any story he is told "If we are in the presence of cerebral cognitive aging, the patient does not understand the intentions of the person in front of him".

And to have a counter-proof of the goodness of the test developed by Francesca Burgio, all that remains is to do an MRI "We have seen how in these patients the subcortical areas of the brain are stimulated, such as when there are stimuli related to sex or food, while the upper cortical areas are less".

In short, you mean that those with cerebral cognitive loss have a lot of fun dealing with money, a pity that in the end they remain in poverty Hence, concludes Dr.

Burgio, the need to rehabilitate these people Because the Ministry of Health has not only financed part of the research that is used to develop the evaluation test, "but also the rehabilitation package, to give back to patients the ability they had before the disease to master the relationship with money and that is with a fundamental part of life.

The test, then, also allows us to intervene in the pre-dementia stage And we have also developed tele-rehabilitation, i.

E A Remote Therapeutic Intervention

We give the patient a tablet with which he exercises and we evaluate the results remotely » For information on the program developed at the Irccs of the Lido, which is part of the Villa Salus Foundation directed by Mario Bassano: francesca.

burgio@sancamillo it 041 2207111) We give the patient a tablet with which he exercises and we evaluate the results remotely ».

For information on the program developed at the Irccs of the Lido, which is part of the Villa Salus Foundation directed by Mario Bassano: francesca burgio@sancamillo.

it 041 2207111) We give the patient a tablet with which he exercises and we evaluate the results remotely » For information on the program developed at the Irccs of the Lido, which is part of the Villa Salus Foundation directed by Mario Bassano: francesca.

burgio@sancamillo it 041 2207111).