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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. 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

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-29 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Sixty participants (30 intervention, 30 control) were recruited and followed up between March 2024 to September 2025.

  2. Stable and Interpretable Cognitive Status Screening Using Longitudinal Wearable Data

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-10-20 Risk factors

    Wearable devices repeatedly measure activity, sleep, and nocturnal physiology, but their value for three-class cognitive screening remains uncertain.

  3. Comorbidities of dementia in electronic health records: validation of a natural language processing app and comparison with data linkage

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-10-19 Risk factors

    MedCAT Comorbidity demonstrated predictive ability for mortality (HR 1.11 per condition), although the model fit was better using comorbidity from hospital admission data.

  4. Speaker-Attributed Transcription Toward Automated Scoring of NACC Uniform Data Set Assessments: A Whisper–Pyannote Pipeline and Pilot Evaluation

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Preprints.org 2026-10-12 Digital health tools

    Standardized cognitive and functional assessments, such as those in the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC) Uniform Data Set (UDS), are central to detecting and monitoring Alzheimer’s disease, yet their administration and scoring depend on trained examiners who record and score responses by hand.

  5. Evaluating Large Language Model Diagnostic Classification in Neuropsychology

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. PsyArXiv 2026-10-06 Digital health tools

    Model-inferred and reference diagnoses showed exact agreement rates from 18.8% to 56.2% with poor to slight chance-corrected agreement (Cohen’s κ = −.178 to .196).

  6. Associations between objectively measured smartphone screen time and ikigai in community-dwelling older adults: roles of physical function and social frailty

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-29 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Although smartphone usage time is not directly associated with ikigai in older adults, it may reflect preserved physical and cognitive abilities required to navigate digital environments.

  7. Dementia Language Models: a generalizable and controllable representation of cognitive impairment

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-09-24 Mild cognitive impairment

    We introduce Dementia Language Models (DeLMs) – generalizable and controllable representations of cognitive impairment through language – alongside an evaluation framework for establishing their validity and clinical grounding.

  8. Remote Digital Cognitive Assessment in a Trial-Ready Alzheimer’s Cohort: A Scalable Approach for Early Intervention Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2026-09-24 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Average adherence was 41%. Despite this, remote measures demonstrated excellent reliability (ICCs > 0.90 after 10 sessions) and strong construct validity, with tasks loading onto memory, attention, and executive function domains.

  9. Comparative Performance of Conventional, Informant-Based, and Digital Cognitive Screening Tools in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-21 Cognitive tests and assessment

    This study provides quantitative evidence supporting the complementary use of multiple cognitive assessment tools.

  10. EHR-Enabled Alzheimer’s Disease Care Pathways in Primary Care: Results from a Multisite Implementation Pilot

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-14 Getting a diagnosis

    Implementation of an EHR-enabled AD care pathway was associated with improved adoption of guideline-concordant cognitive assessment and recommended diagnostic evaluation in primary care across three health systems.

  11. Vocal acoustic biomarkers predict amyloid positivity in non-demented individuals

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-11 Digital health tools

    Amyloid-β deposition begins in the earliest preclinical stages of Alzheimer's disease, long before cognitive decline is detectable by standard clinical assessments, which are often limited by ceiling effects and create a need for non-invasive, scalable markers.

  12. Digital and Health Literacy Are Associated with Health-Related Quality of Life Across Cognitive Impairment Stages in Older Adults

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-09-04 How common it is

    Digital literacy is a meaningful predictor of HRQoL in older adults with intact or mildly impaired cognition, underscoring its potential as an intervention target in digital health strategies.

  13. Digital dementia in adults: an assessment of digital generations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Central European journal of public health 2026-09 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The mean DDAF score was 40.56 ± 21.18 among digital natives (18-29 years), 34.93 ± 21.88 among the digital transition generation (30-44 years), and 25.17 ± 18.59 among digital immigrants (45-70 years) (p < 0.001).

  14. Sensorimotor Characterization of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Virtual Reaching and Catching Tasks

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-27 Getting a diagnosis

    Individuals with MCI and AD exhibit marked deficits in the performance and accuracy of upper-limb reaching and catching movements when assessed in a VR environment.

  15. Spoken Recall Reveals Lexical and Mnemonic Function Differences in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2026-08-25 Digital health tools

    We examined whether natural language processing and acoustic analysis of spoken biographical recall could identify lexical and temporal speech features associated with language and memory performance in TLE.

  16. Privacy Protection of Mental Health Information in China's Electronic Medical Records: A Keyword‑Based Desensitization Method

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-24 How common it is

    While the widespread adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) has significantly improved healthcare efficiency and resource allocation, the sensitivity of medical data poses serious privacy breach risks.

  17. Artificial intelligence education for health science and non-STEM students: a mixed- methods evaluation of an interdisciplinary mental health prototype development program

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-08-11 Caregiving

    This interdisciplinary, prototype-centered AI education program was associated with significant short-term improvements in students’ perceived AI knowledge, digital mental health readiness, interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation capacity, STEM career readiness, and solution-design ability.

  18. Cognitive Stimulation and Training in People with Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer’s Disease: A Scoping Review

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Preprints.org 2026-08-10 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Of 352 records identified, five studies involving 245 participants were included.

  19. Validation of the self-test computerised PROTECT Cognitive Test System for detection of dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-07-27 Getting a diagnosis

    Detection and characterisation of dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is essential for diagnosis and to support recruitment of patients into trials of disease-targeted therapies.

  20. Effects of Practice Testing with Corrective Feedback on Long-Term BPSD Knowledge in Dementia Caregivers: Randomized Controlled Trial

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-07-20 Clinical trials

    Practice testing with detailed, corrective feedback is an effective intervention for targeting caregivers’ dementia-related knowledge.

  21. Multidomain Lifestyle Intervention in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Subgroup Analysis of the SUPERBRAIN-MEET Randomized Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 88 out of 100. Neurology 2026-07-20 Prevention trials

    Of 300 randomized participants, 277 participants (mean age, 72.9 years; 69.3% female) were included in the modified intention-to-treat analysis (142 in the MLI group and 135 in the control group).

  22. Implementation of a standardized Video-based Asynchronous Neurological Examination (VANE) in a multi-center observational study of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD related dementias

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-07-17 Digital health tools

    Engaging 55 research staff across 25 sites and 3 physician-reviewers, this study is the first to demonstrate feasibility of a VANE as an efficient neurological examination model enabled by commonly used devices.

  23. Initial Technical and Clinical Validation of Mobile Pupillometry with Virtual Reality: A Digital Biomarker for Screening Cognitive Function and Impairment

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-07-17 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cognitive impairment is a prevalent symptom extending from physiological ageing to disease.

  24. Alert Policy and Rare-Event Metrics for Seven-Day-Ahead Agitation Forecasting in Passive Dementia Monitoring

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research Square 2026-07-14 Clinical safety

    Default thresholds yielded 20–23% precision with 94– 100% recall—unacceptable for caregiver-facing alerts.

  25. Real-World Outcomes of a Telephone-Based Virtual Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy Program: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-07-14 Disparities

    Changes in four outcome measures from initiation of treatment to discharge were evaluated for statistical significance: quality of life and three therapist-rated Functional Communication Measures (FCMs) of overall cognition, language expression, and language comprehension.

  26. In-clinic validation of a smartphone-based finger tapping test for use in neurodegenerative and neurological populations

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-07-07 Cognitive tests and assessment

    These findings support mApp-FTT validity as a measure of motor function across neurodegenerative conditions.

  27. Mapping Digital and Assistive Technologies for Dementia and Related Neurodegenerative Conditions: A Scoping Review

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-07-01 Disparities

    Neurodegenerative conditions increasingly adopt digital and assistive technologies in community and home-based settings to support independence, symptom management and quality of life.

  28. Digitized and AI-Assisted Scoring of Cognitive Assessments in ALS and Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Scoping Review of Consistency, Reliability, and Cross-Site Applicability

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. PsyArXiv 2026-06-25 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioral ALS Screen (ECAS) is the most validated and widely-used ALS-specific cognitive assessment tool, yet paper-and-pencil manual scoring introduces inter-rater variability that can significantly limit reliability and reproducibility in multi-site clinical trials.

  29. MinderCare: protocol for a mixed-methods evaluation of a digitally enabled dementia care service

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-06-22 Health systems and care delivery

    Strengths and limitations of this study This study evaluates a digitally enabled remote monitoring model for people living with dementia that integrates passive in-home sensors and algorithm-derived digital biomarkers to detect clinically relevant changes such as infection risk, behavioural disturbance and physiological deterioration.

  30. Smartphone-based detection of subtle memory decline in prodromal Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. NPJ digital medicine 2026-06-10 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The slow progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) poses a challenge for the quantification of early disease-driven cognitive decline.

  31. Evaluating the accuracy and reliability of telephone-derived Clinical Dementia Rating scores: A comparative analysis with in-person assessments

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Agreement for the global CDR was moderate (κ = 0.53, 95% CI: 0.47-0.59).

  32. Remote, self-administered, smartphone cognitive testing in a registry-based cohort: Feasibility, reliability, and validity findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Adherence was high (82.2%) and usability favorable.

  33. Re: Clarifying comparative claims in digital cognitive assessment: Assessing concurrent validity in a shared cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2026-05-19 Cognitive tests and assessment

    In response to correspondence from Cognivue, Inc. regarding our publication (Jannati et al., 2025), we clarify that our analysis employed a rigorous paired-sample design using the same 930 participants from the Bio-Hermes-001 study for both the Digital Clock and Recall® (DCR) and Cognivue Clarity® assessments.

  34. A retrieval-augmented generation large language model framework for accurate dementia identification from electronic health records

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-01-25 Digital health tools

    A RAG-based LLM pipeline without structured ICD codes improved dementia ascertainment from EHR data compared with ICD-based rules and keyword-based filtering.

  35. Acoustic Analysis of Primary Care Patient-provider Conversations to Screen for Cognitive Impairment

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2025-12-29 Digital health tools

    The mean age was 66.8 years and 21% had CI.

  36. Accelerometry-Measured Physical Activity Predicts Dementia Onset in a National Cohort of Older Adults

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2025-12-09 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Identifying scalable, objective markers of dementia risk is essential for early prevention and intervention.

  37. Utility of a contemporary digital cognitive-motor biomarker in Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2025-11-10 Cognitive tests and assessment

    BackgroundCognitive impairment significantly impacts the quality of life in patients with neurodegenerative disorders, including Huntington's disease (HD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and Alzheimer's disease (AD).ObjectiveThis study aims to assess the utility of MemTrax, a contemporary digital continuous recognition task platform originally developed for AD, as an effective tool for revealing cognitive and clinical motor impairments in HD and PD populations as aligned with respective disease staging.

  38. Smartphone use by people with dementia: An exploratory survey

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Maturitas 2025-10-13 Cognitive tests and assessment

    There were 719 respondents (276 people with dementia, 443 carers).

  39. Primary care detection of Alzheimer's disease using a self-administered digital cognitive test and blood biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Nature medicine 2025-09-15 Cognitive tests and assessment

    After the clinical implementation of amyloid-β-targeting therapies for people with cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease (AD), there is an urgent need to efficiently identify this patient population in primary care.

  40. The effect of tablet-based multimodal training on cognitive functioning in Alzheimer's disease: A randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. PloS one 2025-08-13 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Over six months, the intervention group showed a stable global cognitive function score (Mini Mental Status Examination), whereas the control group showed a cognitive decline (ANCOVA-interaction: F1, 14 = 5.083, p = .041; controlled for disease duration and education).

  41. Validating remote cognitive tests in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2025-07-31 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Correlations between in-person and T-COG scores were of moderate to large magnitude (Pearson r: 0.57 to 0.80, intraclass correlation coefficients: 0.52 to 0.79).

  42. Unveiling 30 years of research on speech biomarker of dementia using text mining

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Digital health 2025-07-29 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Our analysis yielded three major a marked acceleration in research activity since 2020, a convergence of clinical needs with technological advancements, and the inherently interdisciplinary nature of this field.

  43. Smartphone Keystroke-based Cognitive Impairment Diagnostic Methodology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference 2025-07 Cognitive tests and assessment

    With the global population rapidly aging, dementia has emerged as a major public health concern.

  44. Identifying and Predicting Cognitive Decline Using Multi-Modal Sensor Data and Machine Learning Approach

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Research square 2025-06-18 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Our results demonstrate that the multi-modal classifier achieved strong classification performance (accuracy = 68.64%; precision = 73.97%; F1-score=74.48%), with the highest recall (76.39%) from a model incorporating demographics and driving features, and prediction performance (accuracy = 70.48%; precision = 71.88%; F1-score = 74.80%, recall = 77.97%).

  45. Efficacy of different digital interventions in patients with mild cognitive impairment or dementia: A systematic review and network meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 82 out of 100. International journal of nursing studies 2025-05-29 Cognitive tests and assessment

    A total of 57 articles were included in the review, including 3182 participants.

  46. A scoping review of remote and unsupervised digital cognitive assessments in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. NPJ digital medicine 2025-05-10 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Characterizing subtle cognitive changes in preclinical Alzheimer's disease (AD) is difficult using traditional neuropsychological assessments.

  47. Postural Sway Characteristics Distinguish Types of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2025-02-26 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The data of 1734 participants (1158 with AD, 105 with DLB, 46 with VaD, and 425 with CN) were analyzed.

  48. The digitalization of psychopathology: 'TV sign' and 'Smartphone sign' as red flags for dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurocase 2025-02-21 Cognitive tests and assessment

    This case series elucidates pathological signs for diagnosis in two patients with Dementia.

  49. Acceptance of Unsupervised App-Based Cognitive Assessment in Outpatient Care: An Implementation Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. JMIR formative research 2025-02-13 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We received completed questionnaires from physicians for 45 patients.

  50. Development of Neurodegenerative Disease Diagnosis and Monitoring from Traditional to Digital Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biosensors 2025-02-11 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Monitoring and assessing the progression of symptoms in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, are critical for improving patient outcomes.

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