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
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Language:English
Published: JMIR Publications 2025-04-01
Series:JMIR Aging
Online Access:https://aging.jmir.org/2025/1/e67298
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Matt De Both
Lee Ryan
Kevin Duff
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description 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.
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spelling doaj-art-d3059e523be54ece83d94f756aed9c9d2025-08-20T02:20:33ZengJMIR PublicationsJMIR Aging2561-76052025-04-018e67298e6729810.2196/67298Relationship Between Within-Session Digital Motor Skill Acquisition and Alzheimer Disease Risk Factors Among the MindCrowd Cohort: Cross-Sectional Descriptive StudyAndrew Hooymanhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-8705-3759Matt J Huentelmanhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-7390-9918Matt De Bothhttp://orcid.org/0009-0001-2992-347XLee Ryanhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-4009-801XKevin Duffhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-9336-2400Sydney Y Schaeferhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-6976-8419 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.https://aging.jmir.org/2025/1/e67298
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Relationship Between Within-Session Digital Motor Skill Acquisition and Alzheimer Disease Risk Factors Among the MindCrowd Cohort: Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study
JMIR Aging
title Relationship Between Within-Session Digital Motor Skill Acquisition and Alzheimer Disease Risk Factors Among the MindCrowd Cohort: Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study
title_full Relationship Between Within-Session Digital Motor Skill Acquisition and Alzheimer Disease Risk Factors Among the MindCrowd Cohort: Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study
title_fullStr Relationship Between Within-Session Digital Motor Skill Acquisition and Alzheimer Disease Risk Factors Among the MindCrowd Cohort: Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study
title_full_unstemmed Relationship Between Within-Session Digital Motor Skill Acquisition and Alzheimer Disease Risk Factors Among the MindCrowd Cohort: Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study
title_short Relationship Between Within-Session Digital Motor Skill Acquisition and Alzheimer Disease Risk Factors Among the MindCrowd Cohort: Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study
title_sort relationship between within session digital motor skill acquisition and alzheimer disease risk factors among the mindcrowd cohort cross sectional descriptive study
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