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Professor Matthew Kiernan

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Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

And there's testing for word-finding difficulties, but also then trails.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

So, for instance, doing networks of shapes and sizes, doing...

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

images of clocks, understanding times.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

Another test is verbal fluency.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

That's the frontal lobe function.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

So for instance, I don't know if you want to do it on the spot, but tell me all the letters, all the words that you can think of with the letter M.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

uh, words.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

Yeah.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

Perfect.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

You've still got about another 10 or 20 seconds.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

But more than double figures in a minute is normal.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

And also you're looking at the words you used there.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

Like some of those were three or four syllables.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

So they're very complex words.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

So it's totally normal.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

But this is part of the cognitive assessment.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

Well, we have got risk assessment profiles through the neuro website and they're all free.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

Is that neuro.com.au?

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

Yeah, that's it.

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris
Brain Expert: Why Dementia Is Australia's Number One Killer (Project 100)

And I think it's also just your engagement in life, like people like Sudokus or reading the newspapers or, you know, looking at the stock market, talking about the โ€“