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1. Medicine › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research

   Differentiation of mild cognitive impairment using an entorhinal cortex-based test of virtual reality navigation

   Howett, Castegnaro, Krzywicka et al. · Brain · 2019

   Patients with mild cognitive impairment did a virtual reality navigation test of entorhinal function, which tracked Alzheimer's markers and classified patients better than standard cognitive tests.

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   1. UncheckedA virtual reality path integration task separated biomarker-positive from biomarker-negative patients better (AUC 0.90) than the best cognitive test (AUC 0.57).“The path integration task demonstrated higher diagnostic sensitivity and specificity for differentiating biomarker positive versus negative patients (area under the curve = 0.90) than was achieved by the best of the cognitive tests (area under the curve = 0.57).”
   2. Unchecked“Biomarker-positive patients exhibited larger errors in the navigation task than biomarker-negative patients, whose performance did not significantly differ from controls participants.”
   3. Unchecked“Path integration errors were negatively correlated with the volumes of the total entorhinal cortex and of its posteromedial subdivision.”