Researchers are in the process of developing a new screening test which will be able to diagnose the risk of Alzheimer's in the future in just 30 seconds as per a report by The Daily Telegraph.

The newspaper also read that this kind of a test for the dreaded disease in the elderly could now be made available for common use in just two years time.

This information was given on the basis of a new research which gave MRI scans to almost 428 healthy people who are in their 40s to detect any alterations in the intensity in the white matter for lesions in some particular parts of the brain. The study also discovered that these changes in the brain were found in more than 20 percent of the participants in the study.

The presence of these lesions was associated to bad performance in some cognitive tests. There were some differences in the affects caused in men and women.

The participants of the study were all healthy individuals and their performance in cognitive tasks still has a chance to be between the normal levels.