Food for the Brain Launches Short On-Line Cognitive Function Test

Food for the Brain, a non-profit organization, has developed a free 15-minute online questionnaire, called the Cognitive Function Test, to detect decline in cognitive function in adults over the age of 50. The test is a series of computer-based tasks and games to measure three components of memory that are indicators of cognitive decline, such as Alzheimer’s disease. Although not intended to replace formal assessment by a physician, the test provides snapshot assessment and a recommendation to seek a homosysteine level test from a health care professional; homosysteine is an amino acid associated with building and . . .