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Fastball EEG
Indications:
- investigational evaluation of early Alzheimer's disease
Procedure:
- EEG method for passive & objective measurement of recognition memory
- requires no behavioural memory response or comprehension of the task
- task completed in < 3 minutes
- subjects passively view rapidly presented images
- Fastball EEG assesses their automatic ability to differentiate between images based on previous exposure (old vs new)
- subjects are not instructed to attend to previously seen images & provide no behavioural response
Clinical significance:
- Fastball EEG detects significantly impaired recognition memory in Alzheimer's disease compared to healthy older adults
General
electroencephalography (EEG)
References
- Stothart G, Smith LJ, Milton A, Coulthard E.
A passive and objective measure of recognition memory in Alzheimer's disease
using Fastball memory assessment.
Brain, 2021. September 20. awab154
PMID: 34544117
https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awab154