Article Excerpt: Saying “Hey Alexa” might soon allow doctors to make an earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, augmenting the work of clinicians in these very sensitive and often heartbreaking areas of medicine. A $1.17 million dollar, four-year grant has been awarded to researchers from Dartmouth-Hitchcock and the University of Massachusetts Boston by the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, to use Voice Assistant Systems, such as Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home, to detect early cognitive impairment.
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