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South Korean giant Samsung has launched The Mind Guardian, an app in the form of a video game designed to detect possible cognitive impairment at an early stage. The app is aimed at people over 55 years of age and uses artificial intelligence to fine-tune its results. Published on the Play Store on March 10, it is completely free for Android devices with version 8 or higher. This proposal has quickly become a trend.
The relevance of early detection of cognitive impairment can be key to avoiding hypothetical long-term problems. Samsung explains that this cognitive impairment is a common denominator in "psychiatric or neurodegenerative diseases". Focusing on Alzheimer's disease, with 800,000 diagnosed in Spain according to the Spanish Society of Neurology, early diagnosis can make all the difference.
"Early detection can improve people's quality of life by up to 10 years and reduce the effects of dementia by up to 40 percent," said the developers of The Mind Guardian on their website. Knowing the problem earlier can also mean "carrying out advance decision planning consciously."
Three 45-minute missions
Samsung's video game places the player in a city, which represents their own mind. The user will have to face three missions of about 45 minutes each. Each of these screens is specifically designed to assess key psychological aspects in the early detection of cognitive impairment. The first phase examines episodic memory; the second, procedural memory; and finally, the last, semantic memory.
The scientific endorsements of The Mind Guardian
The Mind Guardian is an in-depth application in which, according to Samsung, prestigious entities have participated: "It has been made possible thanks to the collaboration of Samsung Iberia, the research center atlanTTic de la Universidade de Vigo, the Grupo de Neurociencia Traslacional del Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria Galicia Sur, Cheil Spain and Innatial Developers SL". It is also endorsed by the Spanish Society of Neurology and the Spanish Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health.