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  1. A digital programme to prevent falls and improve wellbeing in people living with dementia in the community: Quantitative results from the KOKU-LITE feasibility study 2026-10-29
  2. Stable and Interpretable Cognitive Status Screening Using Longitudinal Wearable Data 2026-10-20
  3. Comorbidities of dementia in electronic health records: validation of a natural language processing app and comparison with data linkage 2026-10-19

Studies

238 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1991 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 12
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 12
  • medRxiv 12
  • Research Square 11
  • Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 9

107 journals in all.

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  1. Computerised cognitive training in Parkinson's disease: a protocol for a systematic review and updated meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. BMJ open 2020-11-24 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cognitive impairment is recognised as an important non-motor symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD) and there is a need for evidence-based non-pharmacological interventions that may prevent or slow cognitive decline in this patient group.

  2. Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment Through Natural Language and Touchscreen Typing Processing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in digital health 2020-10-08 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI), an identified prodromal stage of Alzheimer's Disease (AD), often evades detection in the early stages of the condition, when existing diagnostic methods are employed in the clinical setting.

  3. Digitization of neuropsychological diagnostics: a pilot study to compare three paper-based and digitized cognitive assessments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Aging clinical and experimental research 2020-10-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Between the two versions (paper-based vs. digital) statistically significant correlations were found in all tests, e.g., TMT-A r(48) = 0.63, p < 0.01; TMT-B rs(48) = 0.77, p < 0.001).

  4. Remote cognitive and behavioral assessment: Report of the Alzheimer Society of Canada Task Force on dementia care best practices for COVID-19

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-09-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Despite challenges, current literature and practice support implementation of telemedicine assessments for patients with cognitive impairment.

  5. Supervised Digital Neuropsychological Tests for Cognitive Decline in Older Adults: Usability and Clinical Validity Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. JMIR mHealth and uHealth 2020-09-21 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The positive results pave the way for the deployment of the system to a nonsupervised environment, thus representing a potential efficacious and ecological solution to support clinicians in the identification of early signs of cognitive decline.

  6. A Validation Study of the Inbrain CST: a Tablet Computer-based Cognitive Screening Test for Elderly People with Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Korean medical science 2020-08-31 Cognitive tests and assessment

    First, in the normative sample, the total score on the Inbrain CST was significantly affected by age, years of education, and gender.

  7. cCOG: A web-based cognitive test tool for detecting neurodegenerative disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020-08-25 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Web-based cognitive tests have potential for standardized screening in neurodegenerative disorders.

  8. A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Process of Copying a Complex Figure in Early- and Late-Onset Alzheimer Disease: A Quantitative Analysis of Digital Pen Data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of medical Internet research 2020-08-12 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The digitalized complex figure test evaluated copying performance quantitatively and further elucidated the patients' ongoing process during copying.

  9. Applying the Health Belief Model to Quantify and Investigate Expectations for Computerized Cognitive Training

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice 2020-08-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Despite the demonstrated benefits of computerized cognitive training for older adults, little is known about the determinants of training behavior.

  10. Remind Me To Remember: A pilot study of a novel smartphone reminder application for older adults with dementia and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Neuropsychological rehabilitation 2020-07-20 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The SmartPrompt is a smartphone-based reminder application informed by a neuropsychological model of functional disability.

  11. The Functionality, Evidence, and Privacy Issues Around Smartphone Apps for the Top Neuropsychiatric Conditions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences 2020-07-16 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Eighty-three apps were reviewed (stroke, N=8; migraine, N=25; Alzheimer's disease and dementia, N=8; depression, N=7; anxiety, N=14; apps targeting depression and anxiety, N=21).

  12. A Mobile Application for Smart Computer-Aided Self-Administered Testing of Cognition, Speech, and Motor Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Sensors 2020-06-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We present a model for digital neural impairment screening and self-assessment, which can evaluate cognitive and motor deficits for patients with symptoms of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Parkinson's disease (PD), Huntington's disease (HD), or dementia.

  13. The Use of a Virtual Reality Platform for the Assessment of the Memory Decline and the Hippocampal Neural Injury in Subjects with Mild Cognitive Impairment: The Validity of Smart Aging Serious Game (SASG)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of clinical medicine 2020-05-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Due to the lack of pharmacological treatment for dementia, timely detection of subjects at risk can be of seminal importance for preemptive rehabilitation interventions.

  14. Subjective Versus Objective Assessment of Cognitive Functioning in Primary Care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2020-05-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Screening protocols in which cognitive testing is administered subsequent to patient complaint are prone to underdiagnosis.

  15. Scalable diagnostic screening of mild cognitive impairment using AI dialogue agent

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Scientific reports 2020-03-31 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The search for early biomarkers of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) has been central to the Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and dementia research community in recent years.

  16. Gallery Game: Smartphone-based assessment of long-term memory in adults at risk of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology 2020-01-24 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Retention intervals of at least three days were needed to evidence significant forgetting at both recognition and paired-associate recall test.

  17. Validity, reliability, and psychometric properties of a computerized, cognitive assessment test (Cognivue ® )

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. World journal of psychiatry 2020-01-19 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cognivue ® scores ≤ 50 avoid misclassification of impairment, and scores ≥ 75 avoid misclassification of unimpairment.

  18. Artificial Intelligence, Speech, and Language Processing Approaches to Monitoring Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Digital health tools

    Promising results are reported across nearly all 51 studies, but very few have been implemented in clinical research or practice.

  19. Digital Biomarkers Based Individualized Prognosis for People at Risk of Dementia: the AltoidaML Multi-site External Validation Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2020 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Research investigating treatments and interventions for cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease (AD) suffer due to difficulties in accurately identifying individuals at risk of AD in the pre-symptomatic stages of the disease.

  20. Smartphone technology for fostering goal-directed ambulation and object use in people with moderate Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology 2019-11-15 Cognitive tests and assessment

    During baseline, the mean frequency of correct target responses was virtually zero.

  21. Computerized cognitive performance assessments in the Brooklyn Cognitive Impairments in Health Disparities Pilot Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2019-11 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cognigram was piloted in the Emergency Department, Family Medicine, and Geriatric Psychiatry clinics: 58 adults (23 men, 35 women), 67.9 ± 9.8 years (range 43-91), completed the Cognigram and 5-item liking survey.

  22. Adapting Mobile and Wearable Technology to Provide Support and Monitoring in Rehabilitation for Dementia: Feasibility Case Series

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. JMIR formative research 2019-10-17 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Smartphones and wearables could provide beneficial and pervasive support and monitoring for rehabilitation among people with dementia.

  23. Mobility assessment in people with Alzheimer disease using smartphone sensors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation 2019-08-14 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Our findings indicate that AD patients present impairments in some key functional abilities, such as gait, turning and sitting, sit to stand, and reaction time, both in mild and moderate AD.

  24. Feasibility and Acceptability of Computerised Cognitive Training of Everyday Cognition in Parkinson's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Parkinson's disease 2019-07-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The findings indicated that participants felt the training was acceptable, enhanced their awareness, and encouraged them to monitor their thinking abilities.

  25. Comparative Effectiveness of Behavioral Interventions on Quality of Life for Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 84 out of 100. JAMA network open 2019-05-03 Cognitive tests and assessment

    These results provide further support for behavioral interventions for persons with MCI.

  26. Smartphone-Based Interventions to Foster Simple Activity and Personal Satisfaction in People With Advanced Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2019-04-23 Cognitive tests and assessment

    All participants had significant increases in independent response frequencies, level of personal satisfaction, and heart rates during program sessions as opposed to baseline or control sessions.

  27. Digital biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: the mobile/ wearable devices opportunity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. NPJ digital medicine 2019-02-21 Digital health tools

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) represents a major and rapidly growing burden to the healthcare ecosystem.

  28. The validity of dementia diagnoses in routinely collected electronic health records in the United Kingdom: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety 2019-01-22 Digital health tools

    However, the credibility of these estimates is limited by the methodological quality of studies, primarily resulting from insufficient blinding of researchers interpreting the reference test.

  29. A Smartphone Application for Automated Decision Support in Cognitive Task Based Evaluation of Central Nervous System Motor Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 2019-01-09 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The system uses a collected dataset of 1928 records, taken from 11 HD patients and 11 healthy persons in Lithuania, to gather statistics about examinations and presents the results as medical evaluation with prediction on the state of health.

  30. Methodology for Establishing a Community-Wide Life Laboratory for Capturing Unobtrusive and Continuous Remote Activity and Health Data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE 2018-07-27 Cognitive tests and assessment

    An end-to-end suite of technologies has been established for the unobtrusive and continuous monitoring of health and activity changes occurring in the daily life of older adults over extended periods of time.

  31. Device-Embedded Cameras for Eye Tracking-Based Cognitive Assessment: Validation With Paper-Pencil and Computerized Cognitive Composites

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of medical Internet research 2018-07-24 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Modest relationships were seen between mean VPC novelty preference and the PACC (r=.39, P=.007) and NIHTB-CB (r=.35, P=.03) composite scores, and additional individual neurocognitive task scores including letter fluency (r=.33, P=.02), category fluency (r=.36, P=.01), and Trail Making Test A (-.40, P=.006).

  32. Patient perspectives of the experience of a computerized cognitive assessment in a clinical setting

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2018-07-10 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Careful design and user-testing should be made a priority in the development of computerized assessment interfaces, as well as reevaluating the cognitive assessment process to minimize patient anxiety and discomfort.

  33. Comparison of Computerized and Paper-and-Pencil Memory Tests in Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2018-06-18 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Both verbal and visual computerized memory tests showed comparable diagnostic performance to the paper-and-pencil tests.

  34. The smartphone in the memory clinic: A study of patient and care partner's utilisation habits

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neuropsychological rehabilitation 2018-04-16 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Smartphones have potential as cognitive aids for adults with cognitive impairments.

  35. Long-Lasting Neuropsychological Effects of a Computerized Cognitive Training in Patients Affected by Early Stage Alzheimer's Disease: Are They Stable Over Time?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society 2018-01-02 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Patients in the experimental group showed a significant improvement in various neuropsychological domains due to the training, and these effects decreased after 12 months.

  36. A Speech Recognition-based Solution for the Automatic Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment from Spontaneous Speech

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2018-01-01 Digital health tools

    The temporal analysis of spontaneous speech can be exploited in implementing a new, automatic detection-based tool for screening MCI for the community.

  37. Computerized Cognitive Testing in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2018 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Computerized cognitive assessment tools may facilitate early identification of dementia in the primary care setting.

  38. Predictors of Smartphone Uses for Health Information Seeking in the Korean Elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Social work in public health 2017-12-19 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The purpose of this research is to examine the predictors of smartphone uses for health information-seeking (SHIS) in the Korean elderly.

  39. Computerized cognitive training for older diabetic adults at risk of dementia: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2017-11-10 Cognitive tests and assessment

    This pilot study is the first trial evaluating the potential benefits of home-based tailored and adaptive CCT in relation to cognitive and disease self-management in older diabetic adults.

  40. Building IoT Services for Aging in Place Using Standard-Based IoT Platforms and Heterogeneous IoT Products

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Sensors 2017-10-11 Cognitive tests and assessment

    An aging population and human longevity is a global trend.

  41. Doctor, Should I Use Computer Games to Prevent Dementia?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Clinical gerontologist 2017-10-11 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Commercial advertising of computerized "brain games" may result in clinicians being asked whether brain games prevent dementia.

  42. Can a tablet-based cancellation test identify cognitive impairment in older adults?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. PloS one 2017-07-24 Cognitive tests and assessment

    In the MCI group, age (B = -0.37, p<0.001) and current daily use of computer-based devices (B = 5.85, p<0.001) were associated with the number of correct cancellations of the e-CT.

  43. Examining the Roles of Technology in Aging and Quality of Life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Journals of Gerontology Series B 2017-07-14 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Although a small-scale study (n = 60), it suggests that older adults operate in larger geographic spaces than in the areas where they reside.

  44. Efficacy of the Ubiquitous Spaced Retrieval-based Memory Advancement and Rehabilitation Training (USMART) program among patients with mild cognitive impairment: a randomized controlled crossover trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2017-06-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The 4-week USMART modestly improved information retrieval in older people with MCI, and was well accepted with minimal technical support.

  45. Cognitive Testing in People at Increased Risk of Dementia Using a Smartphone App: The iVitality Proof-of-Principle Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. JMIR mHealth and uHealth 2017-05-25 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Repeated smartphone-assisted cognitive testing is feasible with reasonable adherence and moderate relative validity for the Stroop and the Trail Making tests compared with conventional neuropsychological tests.

  46. Computerized Cognitive Testing for Use in Clinical Trials: A Comparison of the NIH Toolbox and Cogstate C3 Batteries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2017-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Preliminary findings suggest that the NIH Toolbox has the advantage of showing the strongest overall clustering and alignment with standardized paper-and-pencil tasks.

  47. Diagnostic Value of a Tablet-Based Drawing Task for Discrimination of Patients in the Early Course of Alzheimer's Disease from Healthy Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    There is a considerable delay in the diagnosis of dementia, which may reduce the effectiveness of available treatments.

  48. Google Calendar Enhances Prospective Memory in Alzheimer's Disease: A Case Report

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2017-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We investigated whether an external memory aid (i.e., Google Calendar) would alleviate prospective memory compromise in a patient with mild Alzheimer's disease.

  49. Computerized Structured Cognitive Training in Patients Affected by Early-Stage Alzheimer's Disease is Feasible and Effective: A Randomized Controlled Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists 2016-12-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Patients in the experimental group showed a significant improvement in various neuropsychological domains, and their achievements were stable after 6 months.

  50. The Feasibility of At-Home iPad Cognitive Testing For Use in Clinical Trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2016-03-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Excellent reliability was observed among the 6 C3-PAD alternate versions (Cronbach alpha coefficient=0.93).

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