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Mentis Cura, headquartered in Reykjavík, has developed an electroencephalography (EEG) statistical pattern recognition software to help diagnose and track the process of Alzheimer’s disease in its early stages.
Gerontologist Jón Snædal told ruv.is that a treatment for Alzheimer’s including an antidote against loss of protein which causes the disease is under development.
Jón stated it is therefore great to have the tools to diagnose the disease early. “We are perhaps talking about two to three years [until treatment can begin] if the plans that are currently on the table work out.”
He pointed out that there will always be a need for multiple methods to diagnose Alzheimer’s but said the new software is an important addition to the process as well as being simple and inexpensive.
Mentis Cura’s design allows the software to run on any EEG machine and can be used in almost any hospital, clinic or doctor’s office, as stated on the company’s website.
The EEG results can be sent electronically to a specialist or neurologist for analysis. The total test takes approximately 30 to 45 minutes.
Statistics show that in the U.S. ten percent of people over 65 and 50 percent over 85 will develop Alzheimer’s disease.
Because of how many people will be affected by the disease several companies and research centers have been developing diagnostic EEG software specific to Alzheimer’s.
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Four Icelandic contestants will participate in this year’s World Skills International, the world cup for industrial- and vocational subjects. The competition is held every other year.
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This year’s free English-language travel guide Around Iceland has been released, the 38th year in a row. The guide is also published in Icelandic and German and is distributed in 100,000 copies to the country’s most frequented tourist destinations.
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An international group of divers recently traveled to Þingvellir National Park in Southwest Iceland to explore this unique diving destination. A Polish guide, Michail Zinieuricz, who works for the DIVE.is, led the team of North Americans and a French couple.
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Iceland’s northernmost island is no longer one island. In a recent surveillance excursion to the Kolbeinsey, the Icelandic Coast Guard discovered that the island is now divided in two.
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The 2013 June-July issue of Iceland Review is out. Themed ‘We Are Young’ the magazine celebrates the arrival of summer by interviewing young energetic Icelanders who excel in art, sports, business and politics—and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the youngest PM in the republic’s history and the world’s youngest ruling state leader. Click here to take a look at a selection of the current issue and here to subscribe to the magazine.
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The road to Höfn, a 1,690-person harbor town by the fjord Hornafjörður, is lined with reindeer. Whole herds of the wild horned animals rest peacefully on withered pastures, grace next to sheep and horses and bounce along the road. Soon, Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier and the region’s biggest attraction, comes into view. Looming over Höfn, its outlet glaciers flow down from the mountains on which the bright white icecap rests.
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