This week I was the moderator at the DellEMC #TranformHIT Healthcare Think Tank event. It was a great event and if you missed it, you can search the #TranformHIT on Twitter or find the recording in the embedded video at the bottom of this post.
One of the highlights of the event for me was meeting Dr. Jeff Trent From TGen, a nonprofit institute focused on translating genomic research into life-changing results. The work they’re doing is really quite incredible and Dr. Trent offered some great insights at the Think Tank.
One of the research projects at TGen is called Mind Crowd. This research looks at memory and other brain related diseases. As part of the study, they’re trying to get 1 million people to participate in a fun, but simple mind test on their site. The test takes about 10 minutes, but try it out and see how you do.
What’s fascinating about the results they’ve already seen from the 74k+ people who have taken the test to date is that women of all ages actually have better memory than men. There are outliers, but across the data it’s very clear that in this test women remember things better than men.
To add to these findings, there’s also an interesting thing that happens when women approach the age of menopause. Women at that age seem to actually get an increase in their memory. It’s not clear why this is the case, but the data shows an uptick in memory about the time most women hit menopause.
Tgen is also taking the outliers and working with them to study why their memory is so much better or worse (ie. an older person with an incredible memory or a younger person with a poor memory). I’m interested to see what comes from these studies.
If you want to contribute to their research, take 10 minutes and go and participate in their Mind Test.
Here’s the full Think Tank video: