Playing this game could help unlock the secrets of dementia

By Catherine Armitage
Updated May 11 2016 - 11:14am, first published May 5 2016 - 7:13pm
In Sea Hero Quest, a father and son travel the oceans to find pieces of a missing map.
In Sea Hero Quest, a father and son travel the oceans to find pieces of a missing map.

A smartphone game has achieved the seemingly impossible less than 24 hours after its launch. Thousands of people of all ages are participating in dementia research on their mobile phones, including youth who want to help their sick grandparents. The research data already collected would have taken 70 years to collect in a laboratory, the researchers say.

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