What exactly is braining.app?
Braining.app is an innovative technology which allows you to gather detailed information on your own cognitive resources. It also provides information on potential development of dementia whereas the test itself only takes a few minutes. It results in a score (ICOS - internet-based cognitive score) that quantifies your cognitive functions. The app differs from other supposedly similar tools by some fundamental quality criteria:
Braining.app is not programmed by a software company, but by a specialist in neurology, which means that our own clinical neurological experience has already been incorporated into the basic functions of the app as part of the app development. On the basis of this expertise, algorithms were also developed that allow sufficient statements to be made about the cognitive resources of the user while the time required is little.
As part of the development of the app as well as continuously since then, scientific methods take place in order to ensure the quality of the app or, if necessary, even to improve it. Particularly noteworthy is the possibility of testing in a temporal longitudinal profile, which often allows the recognition of cognitive impairments much earlier than other outdated methods that are often still used to identify dementia.
Part of the concept of this app is that, in a further step, personalized exercises selected via artificial intelligence are made available to the respective user, which prevent the emergence of cognitive losses in the sense of an active prevention. This function is currently still in the alpha phase and is only available to a few alpha testers.
