A Test For Alzheimer's

Evaluation ^

[gaggs]

This is a real test. Not too easy, but it does not take long to do.

Sit comfortably and be calm. This is a serious test, not a joke.. Put your thinking process aside - i.e. put your brain in neutral gear.

[gaggs]

Test here: Evaluation: A Test For Alzheimer's

[RU88]

I’m 46, just woke up, and thought this to be rather easy considering I have not even finished my first cup of coffee.

[muir_redwoods]

ping

[central_va]

The Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.

Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS uses logic detail oriented facts rule words and language present and past math and science can comprehend knowing acknowledges order/pattern perception knows object name reality based forms strategies practical safe

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS uses feeling "big picture" oriented imagination rules symbols and images present and future philosophy & religion can "get it" (i.e. meaning) believes appreciates spatial perception knows object function fantasy based presents possibilities impetuous risk taking

[Yankee]

I laughed so hard I nearly pissed myself.

At least I don’t have Alzheimer’s. LOL

[nevergore]

What were we testing again????

[Yankee]

I seem to be able to make the image reverse direction at will.

Is this legit or some kind of gag.

My initial perception was that it was moving in a clockwise direction.

[AnAmericanMother]

That's funny. I'm the most left-brain person I know - but clearly the dancer is rotating in the "right brain" direction.

Maybe it's because I am a dancer, and that limited part of my perception IS right brained.

[Gay State Conservative]

...do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

Who cares in what direction she's turning.I want her phone number!

[Gay State Conservative]

I have Irish Alzheimer’s.That where you forget everything but the grudges.

[shineon]

me too, I could “make it” change directions. Almost back and forth.

[Yankee]

I took a battery of tests in 1988 when I enrolled in the now defunct Grumman Data Systems Institute. (Operated by the now defunct Grumman Aircraft Corporation)

I was told that I scored extremely high in the Logic exam, but that I also had a very creative and imaginative side as well. This was a pretty exhaustive set of exams which took a number of hours to complete.

[listenhillary]

I can change the direction by looking away and looking back. What does that mean? Initial look was counter clockwise.

The nips are distracting.

[Yankee]

“It requires no decoration. I find tinsel distracting”. - Frank Costanza

“It’s another Festivus miracle!” - Cosmo Kramer

[Roccus]

Try it again around sundown.

[Savage Beast]

Somehow they managed to leave out the most important part of the interpretation:

After test #4, they intended to add:

"If you voted for him, forget about tests #1-3. You definitely have Alzheimer's--or some other severe form of dementia.

[cartoonistx]

Funny... in test #4 all I saw was 43 presidents and a Kenyan.

[autumnraine]

It changes direction.

[AnAmericanMother]

Many many years ago, when my parents were trying to decide whether to send me to a very rigorous prep school, I was tested for several days.

"Right brain" and "left brain" hadn't been invented yet, but I scored high on the logic, not so high on spatial relationships.

It depends I guess on what I'm doing. I'm very intuitive and kinetic when I'm participating in sports or dance, but not so much sitting down.

[Chode]

when you reverse it's direction, it REALLY spins fast for a half a rotation or so for your eyes to catch with your mind, or maybe visa versa...