Relationship Between Within-Session Digital Motor Skill Acquisition and Alzheimer Disease Risk Factors Among the MindCrowd Cohort: Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study

Abstract BackgroundPrevious research has shown that in-lab motor skill acquisition (supervised by an experimenter) is sensitive to biomarkers of Alzheimer disease (AD). However, remote unsupervised screening of AD risk through a skill-based task via the web has the potential t...

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Main Authors: Andrew Hooyman, Matt J Huentelman, Matt De Both, Lee Ryan, Kevin Duff, Sydney Y Schaefer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: JMIR Publications 2025-04-01
Series:JMIR Aging
Online Access:https://aging.jmir.org/2025/1/e67298
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Summary:Abstract BackgroundPrevious research has shown that in-lab motor skill acquisition (supervised by an experimenter) is sensitive to biomarkers of Alzheimer disease (AD). However, remote unsupervised screening of AD risk through a skill-based task via the web has the potential to sample a wider and more diverse pool of individuals at scale. ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to examine a web-based motor skill game (“Super G”) and its sensitivity to risk factors of AD (eg, age, sex, APOE MethodsEmails were sent to 662 previous MindCrowd participants who had agreed to be contacted for future research and have their APOEAPOE ResultsFifty-four participants (~8% response rate) from the MindCrowd web-based cohort (mean age of 62.39 years; 39 females; and 23 APOEAPOEPPβPmale:TinTP ConclusionsThis experiment demonstrated that this web-based game, Super G, has the potential to be a skill-based digital biomarker for screening of AD risk on a large scale with relatively limited resources.
ISSN:2561-7605