Paradigm-shifted research on Dementia and Appropriate Biomedical Engineering for it

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Dementia progresses to healthy people, PCSD, MCI and Dementia. The initial research was the development of curative for Dementia. Various imaging techniques and neuropsychological tests for diagnosis, non-drug therapy, care technologies such as robots, etc. were the research subjects. Recently, when research on curative have been stalled, the entire research has been paradigm-shifted toward pre-Dementia stage. Therefore, the research subject of BME on Dementia should be also moving toward the prevention of dementia, because I believe that synergistic effects with other technical fields are important in pursuing results. Finally, as an example, I would like to introduce the Neuropsychological Test named CWPT, which enables classification of minor brain functions before Dementia. This test has already gained evidences and has been put to practical use as a screening for local residents in Japan. We have created English version of the test. If you are interested, please contact me.