{"id":2577,"date":"2020-09-25T13:59:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T12:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2020-09-25T13:59:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T12:59:51","slug":"tetris-could-be-used-to-diagnose-early-stages-of-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2020\/09\/25\/tetris-could-be-used-to-diagnose-early-stages-of-alzheimers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tetris could be used to diagnose early stages of Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Research from Dr Chee Siang (Jim) Ang\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">from the School of Computing, <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">alongside University College London,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">has revealed that popular games apps such as Tetris could one day be used to diagnose early stages of Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dr Ang&#8217;s research was covered in <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/science\/tetris-fruit-ninja-mobile-games-used-detect-alzheimers-dementia-656294\">inews <\/a>where you can read the full story.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ang <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/computing\/news\/2542\/staff-changes-for-the-new-university-year\">recently joined<\/a> the School of Computing, having previously worked in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research from Dr Chee Siang (Jim) Ang\u00a0from the School of Computing, alongside University College London,\u00a0has revealed that popular games apps such as Tetris could one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2020\/09\/25\/tetris-could-be-used-to-diagnose-early-stages-of-alzheimers\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":2579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2580,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/2580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}