“Game training is effective in improving Alzheimer’s dementia”

In an experiment by an international research team in which Zurich University of Technology participated, cognitive exercise training helped prevent Alzheimer’s and dementia. What I used for training was a machine that operated by stepping on a button according to the timing with your feet while looking at the screen in front of you. This can be said to be similar to the popular game center game, Dance Dance Revolution.

In modern medicine, treatment of Alzheimer’s and dementia by drugs is apt to lead to failure. However, cognitive training to move the body is a means to combat these symptoms. The one used here is a machine called Dividat Senso. Here, while playing a cloud-based game, it provides vibration and tactile feedback by a motor to measure the subject’s balance, weight, and gait from 20 built-in sensors.

Like curling by stepping on a number that increases one by one in order from 1, the other circle is stepping on an arrow lit by another circle that steps in place at the timing of entering the black circle inside ◎. Through these games, you train your attention, concentration, memory, and ability to adapt.

Originally, a machine for exercise for the elderly has a strong meaning, but the research team applied it and experimented with training for 8 weeks and used it as brain training. As a result, it was said that it was able to delay or attenuate the symptoms of the elderly suffering from severe Alzheimer’s and dementia. Related information can be found here.