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Free Memory Fitness Testing Services are Available Through The GUEST Membership Account
THE ALZHEIMER'S LIFEPLAN AND HOW YOU CAN USE IT
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What follows in a guided tour of the GUEST Alzheimer's LifePlan membership account.
The screen pictures are not active - meaning the text around them will tell you what the actual web pages you will use when you enter the GUEST accounts will do for you - and what you have to do to them.
You enter the GUEST Membership account by clicking on the "Members and Guest Login" Navigation bar - just below the 24/7 Workshop One Navigation bar that is on every page of the Alzheimer's LifePlan.
You access membership accounts - and the GUEST GUEST account through the system's "Login Menu". As all visitors use this single GUEST GUEST account - the data and personal test scores of all individuals taking tests or entering vital sign information is mixed together.
When you click on a text link for "Member Services" or Guest Account, you will land at the Membership Services Login Menu. If you use GUEST as your User Name, and GUEST as your Password - you will be taken to the GUEST GUEST membership "My Profile" account:
After you enter GUEST in the User Name Text Box - and GUEST in the Password text box; when you cursor over the "LOGIN" text box and click on it - you will be taken to the "My Profile" of the GUEST GUEST account.
Each member of the Alzheimer's LifePlan Online Community has a personal page just like this one. You are welcome to explore the GUEST GUEST account as often as you like - just keep in mind that others are using this account as well - so depending on traffic and congestion - some parts may be slow - including the memory fitness testing console. So, please be considerate of others.
Your purpose here is to access the control panel of the Memory Fitness Testing Platform - again this is the specific Guest Guest control panel - to get there you will notice on the left hand navigation column - the text "Memory Tests".
Clicking on the text "Memory Tests" will open the GUEST GUEST test control console - here you will design the memory fitness test you are about to take.
As you saw in the earlier presentations, our memory fitness test consists of a series of images - when you see an image reappear within the same test (repeat), you are to depress the spacebar. Depressing the space bar is all you have to do - but before you begin a test - you have some design options you need to build into the platform.
The first option you want to set will be the number of images there will be in the test. This shouldn't restrict your access to the Guest account, or your approaching the memory fitness testing platform.
Note that the grayy bar with the "# Pictures 40" box has a drop down box too.
If you click on that drop down box, you'll see that there are settings for "40", "26", "16" available to you.
We recommend you select "26" for your first tests - you have to change or check the setting each time you design a test. Learning on the 26 image test is a good place to start as average memory fitness (if there is such a thing) will allow you to score well consistently.
Your scores on your first few tests aren't important - in fact you'll probably discard them from your records - as you will be learning how tricking this simple test - and your brain's attempts to always be right for you will spoil a few test sessions.
With the "26" selected the console # Pictures should look like this.
If you notice the line just below the # Pictures gray bar - the "Picture Time 3" box appears.
We are going to recommend you use the default setting of 3 seconds for your first tests.
You should know that you can "throttle" your tests by changing the time each picture is exposed during a test.
It may not seem like much right now - but the differences between taking a 26 image test with three seconds of exposure for each image and the same test with two seconds - is remarkably more challenging.
With the number of images and time for each image exposed set - you are ready to download the test into your computer - so there is no chance of the online connection or transference of data between your computer and the testing platform's servers - to download the test you cursor over the "START TEXT" box and click there.
This "OK" graphic means your computer is set and ready to present the first image of the test you just designed.
OK - relax, clear your mind and think about what is going to happen.
Clear mind right? Deep Breath right?
You depress the spacebar
The First Image - Do nothing because image has not appeared before in this test - it's forst remember?
In three seconds (because that is the time you set) - the next image will appear:
This is not a repeated image - so you do nothing.
After three seconds - the next image will appear.
This is not a repeated image either - so you do nothing.
A quick note here - The images are shuffled around in these tests. Some are of objects like these three have been - but they could be of letters, and words.
As you take more tests - especially if they in the same day or testing session - your brain will remember images they have taken from earlier tests - so you have to remind your brain that each test takes a snapshop of its ability to remember images within each test it is taking.
You'll get the hang of it.
The next image.
This is a repeat - Depress the Space Bar
As soon as you depress the space bar - the next image will appear:
Holy Cow! This is a repeat too! Depress the Space Bar
That is all you have to do while taking the test - it's fun, exciting, and also gives your brain a good workout!
After the last image of the test fades away:
You get your Test Results.
You'll note this was a 26 image test - I made one mistake- I said the #10 image was a repeat - it wasn't - I probably recalled seeing it from tests I was taking while gathering the images for this presentation.
Any way you look at it, its not bad.
In fact, there is about 250,000 pieces of information presented here - just about my brain's ability to form short-term recall messages. One set of Test Results is a good thing - but in no way a diagnostic tool for Alzheimer's. What is of value here, is that you will learn how to design a test that is moderately challenging for your brain - and then take the test often.
Doing this over a period of time builds your brain's memory fitness - but it also builds a historic record of your brain's normal recent memory forming performance - a score if you will. If you keep this record and share it with your doctor or family members, you will have a reference to judge against future memory disorders - regardless of what they are.
If you go back to the "My Profile" page, you'll see that next to the "START TEST" text box, there is a "GRAPH HISTORY" text box.
If you cursor over the "GRAPH HISTORY" box and click on it, you'll see the graphic baseline history of the GUEST GUEST 26 image memory fitness tests:
You can expect to see radical differences between the test results in this account - because like yourself, visitors here are learning the testing procedure. The test you just took will be located at the end of graph.
You will see the date, time, Picture Time setting (3 in this case), the percentage score and the "VIEW" button.
If you Click on the "VIEW" button your full Test Results page - the one you saw right after the last image faded - will come up.
Click on "My Profile" and you will be taken back to the main membership page of the GUEST GUEST account:
Members use their personal accounts to manage their personal Vital Sign and Memory Fitness Baseline records. As you develop your personal Alzheimer's Prevention program, you should set some diet, fitness (mental and physical) programs, and goals of progress for yourself.
Feel free to explore the personal record keeping areas of the GUEST GUEST account, and consider joining the Alzheimer's LifePlan Online Community - meaning you would have your own account just like this one.
Membership requires a one time payment ($50) for a personal account that runs through 2012.
You can leave the GUEST GUEST account anytime by clicking the "Log-Off" text - or the "Return to Alzheimer's LifePlan" text and logo in the upper left hand corner of the My Profile page.
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The Value of Frequent Memory Fitness Testing
The Alzheimer's LifePlan memory fitness testing platform was designed so healthy people (brains) could take a one minute short term memory and learning performance evaluation exercise. In the exercise about 250,000 pieces of data (scores) are gathered on how the participant's brain recognized images in a set of images that repeated.
If the testing session is designed properly, and the participant performs properly, the results of a test provide a valid "snapshot" of the individual's ability to form a series of recent memories. That is all.
If someone wanted to establish what their brain's normal ability to form recent memories would be - they could take the same test multiple times (over a period of time) and review their scores. A pattern of "average" scores should represent a good estimate of the individual's short term memory and learning performance fitness (memory fitness).
As individuals become more familiar with their brain's "always on - always working for you" functions - they can establish a more objective way of monitoring their short-term memory and learning performance capacities. One of the significant deceptions of any memory disorder - is that your brain hides it from you. This is why, most people worried that they are developing Alzheimer's - probably aren't - because their brain is still "remembering and reporting to them" there is such a thing as forgetfulness and Alzheimer's disease symptoms.
The base of the Alzheimer's LifePlan is that an individual's memory fitness is one of their brain's vital signs. Any lack of the brain's ability to perform - is a serious matter. Memory fitness reduction can be caused by a multitude of things ranging from fatigue to tumors. The memory fitness tests offered by the Alzheimer's LifePlan is NOT a screening tests by any means - it is a image-recall test, capable of giving you a one minute snap shot memory fitness score.
Establishing your normal memory fitness rating as a vital sign, and sharing this information with your doctor - will start your early Alzheimer's onset treatment strategy building. Your doctor is your General in your war against disease - Alzheimer's included. If you give your doctor valid information about your lifestyle and vital signs, they will be able to guide you towards better health.
Your doctors can affiliate their clinics into the Alzheimer's LifePlan Clinical Support Services network; and gain access to special services, the Neurological Disease Foundation's Memory Assessment Project (MAP), and a series of "Grand Rounds of Alzheimer's" extended medical education programs.
Added Value of Pease of Mind
No pun intended, but give you brain a little less anxiety regarding memory disorders and Alzheimer's disease. If you haven't attened the 24/7 Workshop One of the Alzheimer's LifePlan, do it now. In the workshop you'll learn about the recent breakthroughs in brain imaging, memory fitness testing, early Alzheimer's onset detection, optimized FDA treatments, and the Alzheimer's Vaccine's progress in clinical trials.
There is more good news in the world of Alzheimer's than bad - and you can help make it better.
Take me to the 24/7 Workshop One
Take me to the eBook Alzheimer's Prevention
Take me to the eBook Alzheimer's LifePlan - The Story
Take me to the Workshop Resources Center
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