Alzheimer's Exam

[JesusA (imported)]

Quick Check for Alzheimer's

The following was developed as a mental age assessment by the School of Psychiatry at Harvard University. Take your time and see if you can read each line aloud without a mistake. Do not just read them silently. The average person over 40 years of age cannot do it!

1. This is this cat.

2. This is is cat.

3. This is how cat.

4. This is to cat.

5. This is keep cat.

6. This is an cat.

7. This is old cat.

8. This is fart cat.

9. This is busy cat.

10. This is for cat.

11. This is forty cat.

12. This is seconds cat.

Now go back and read aloud the third word in each line from the top down...

[kennath7 (imported)]

that is most excellent

[snoopy (imported)]

The average person over 40 years of age cannot do it!

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Now go back and read aloud the third word in each line from the top down...

Hey, i'm over 40 and i could do it in less then forty seconds... just can't remember what i did.

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Hey, i'm over 40 and i could do it in less then forty seconds... just can't remember what i did.

Remember what?

[Riverwind (imported)]

Thank you from me and this old fart who posted before me.

River

[colin (imported)]

Thank you from me and this old fart who posted before me.

River

I just hope that they are dry ones!