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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. An online multidomain lifestyle intervention to prevent cognitive decline in at-risk older adults: a randomized controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 93 out of 100. Nature medicine 2025-01-28 Prevention trials

    Effective, scalable dementia prevention interventions are needed to address modifiable risk factors given global burden of dementia and challenges in developing disease-modifying treatments.

  2. Tablet-based self assessment memory scale-revised (SAMS-R) evaluates memory functions for older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2025-01-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The 2nd SAMS score were higher than the 1st SAMS score in some participants, on the other hand, the intraclass correlation coefficient was good.

  3. Performance and validation of a digital memory test across the Alzheimer's disease continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Brain communications 2025-01-17 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Digital cognitive testing using online platforms has emerged as a potentially transformative tool in clinical neuroscience.

  4. Clinical validity of IntelliSpace Cognition digital assessment platform in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Frontiers in psychology 2024-12-30 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We evaluated a digital cognitive assessment platform, Philips IntelliSpace Cognition, in a case-control study of patients diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and cognitively normal (CN) older adults.

  5. Communication Bridge-2 randomized controlled trial: Recruitment and baseline features

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-11-26 Clinical trials

    Ninety-five participant dyads (PPA mean baseline age: 67.1; 48% female) from four countries were enrolled and randomized.

  6. Detecting functional impairment with the Digital Clock and Recall

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024-11-12 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The DCR scaled well with FAQ scores, and ML classifiers trained on multimodal DCR features demonstrated strong performance in predicting functional impairment on a held-out test set.

  7. Modifiable dementia risk factors associated with objective and subjective cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-10-09 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Depression, socioeconomic status, hearing handicap, loneliness, education, smoking, tinnitus, little exercise, small social network, stroke, diabetes, and hypertension were all associated with impairments in at least one cognitive measure.

  8. New tablet-based screening tool for assessment of cognitive decline in Nigeria

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024-10-03 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We comment on the importance of the novel tablet-based screening tool for cognitive decline recently studied in Nigeria by Ogbuagu et al. TabCAT-BHA was administered on an iPad in urban and rural settings and was found to be a sensitive and culturally appropriate tool for assessing cognitive function and impairment.

  9. Validity of the Tablet-Based Digital Cognitive Test (SCST) in Identifying Different Degrees of Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of Korean medical science 2024-09-30 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The SCST total score, cognitive domain scores (attention, language, visuospatial function, memory, executive function), and most of the subtest scores decreased significantly in the order of SCD, MCI and dementia.

  10. Psychometric and adherence considerations for high-frequency, smartphone-based cognitive screening protocols in older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2024-09-20 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Average compliance by time of day ranged from 90.2% for morning sessions, to 77.9% for afternoon sessions, and 84.4% for evening sessions.

  11. Predicting CDR status over 36 months with a recall-based digital cognitive biomarker

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-09-11 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The best predictor of CDR at 36 months was M, a DCB reflecting recall ability (area under the curve = 0.84), outperforming traditional scores.

  12. Cognitive modeling of the Mnemonic Similarity Task as a digital biomarker for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-09-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    A MPT model of the MST can detect individuals with AD prior to cognitive decline, making it a potentially useful tool for screening and monitoring older adults during the asymptomatic phase of AD.

  13. Digital cognitive assessments as low-burden markers for predicting future cognitive decline and tau accumulation across the Alzheimer's spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-09-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Digital assessments are effective at identifying at-risk individuals, supporting their utility as low-burden tools for early AD detection and monitoring.

  14. Comparing psychometric characteristics of a computerized cognitive test (BrainCheck Assess) against the Montreal cognitive assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Frontiers in psychology 2024-09-03 Cognitive tests and assessment

    A high Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.77 (CI = 0.63-0.86) was observed between the two scores.

  15. Digital Cognitive Test for Early Detection of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Studies in health technology and informatics 2024-08-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Dementia poses a significant global health problem, necessitating early detection for effective intervention.

  16. Dose-response relationship between computerized cognitive training and cognitive improvement

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. NPJ digital medicine 2024-08-15 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Although computerized cognitive training (CCT) is an effective digital intervention for cognitive impairment, its dose-response relationship is understudied.

  17. Digital remote assessment of speech acoustics in cognitively unimpaired adults: feasibility, reliability and associations with amyloid pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-08-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The speech assessment was feasible, indicated by 91.6% adherence and usability scores of 86.0 ± 9.9.

  18. Initial Perspectives From Rural-Residing Adults on a Digital Cognitive Health Coaching Intervention: Exploratory Qualitative Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. JMIR formative research 2024-07-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The following four themes emerged from participants' feedback: (1) healthy lifestyle and behavioral changes, (2) a sense of self-awareness through introspection, (3) value in coach support, and (4) a desire for a change in program format (eg, frequency).

  19. Examining Associations Between Smartphone Use and Clinical Severity in Frontotemporal Dementia: Proof-of-Concept Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. JMIR aging 2024-06-26 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The CDR+NACC FTLD global score interacted with time on battery percentage such that participants with prodromal or symptomatic FTLD demonstrated less change in battery percentage throughout the day (a proxy for less smartphone use) than clinically normal participants (P<.001 in both cases).

  20. Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs) for dementia care and research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Frontiers in dementia 2024-05-14 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Overall, this review corroborates the promising utilization of LLMs to positively impact dementia care by boosting cognitive abilities, enriching social interaction, and supporting caregivers.

  21. Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) XpressO: Validation of a digital self-administered cognitive prescreening tool

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024-04-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Analysis showed strong correlation between (1) XpressO memory tasks scores and the MoCA Memory Index Score (p-values < 0.001), and between (2) XpressO sub-test scores and MoCA total score (p-values < 0.005).

  22. Reliability and Validity of Smartphone Cognitive Testing for Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. JAMA network open 2024-04-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The findings of this cohort study suggest that smartphones could offer a feasible, reliable, valid, and scalable solution for remote evaluations of FTLD and may improve early detection.

  23. A remote digital memory composite to detect cognitive impairment in memory clinic samples in unsupervised settings using mobile devices

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. NPJ digital medicine 2024-03-26 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Remote monitoring of cognition holds the promise to facilitate case-finding in clinical care and the individual detection of cognitive impairment in clinical and research settings.

  24. Hypertension is associated with impaired cognition, and when combined with MCI, it may lead to a poor prognosis.

  25. Dual-task turn velocity - a novel digital biomarker for mild cognitive impairment and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2024-02-27 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Our results demonstrated that dual-task could significantly improve the ability to predict cognitive impairment based on gait parameters such as gait speed (GS) and stride length (SL).

  26. Digital neuropsychological measures by defense automated neurocognitive assessment: reference values and clinical correlates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2024-02-15 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Age- and sex-specific reference values were generated for three DANA tasks.

  27. Validity and Reliability Study of Online Cognitive Tracking Software (BEYNEX)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports 2024-02-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Beynex categorization scores showed a moderate agreement with MoCA ratings (weighted Cohen's Kappa = 0.48; 95% CI: 0.38-0.60).

  28. Naturalistic assessment of reaction time variability in older adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2024-01-29 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Attentional fluctuations over 20-40 seconds assessed in daily life, are sensitive to clinical status and genetic risk for AD.

  29. The development and validation of a digital biomarker for remote assessment of Alzheimer's diseases risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Digital health 2024-01-23 Cognitive tests and assessment

    ANOVA and Bayesian t-test found no significant differences between the task when it was remotely self-administered by participants at home compared to when it was taken under controlled lab conditions.

  30. Comparing Cognitive Tests and Smartphone-Based Assessment in 2 US Community-Based Cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2024-01-16 Cognitive tests and assessment

    A total of 406 FHS (Framingham Heart Study) and 59 BHS (Bogalusa Heart Study) participants with traditional neuropsychological tests and digital assessments using the Defense Automated Neurocognitive Assessment (DANA) smartphone protocol were included.

  31. Design and Feasibility Analysis of a Smartphone-Based Digital Cognitive Assessment Study in the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2024-01-16 Cognitive tests and assessment

    A smartphone application collected 2 modalities of cognitive data, digital voice and screen-based behaviors, from the FHS (Framingham Heart Study) multigenerational Generation 2 (Gen 2) and Generation 3 (Gen 3) cohorts.

  32. Assessment of Mild Cognitive Impairment Using CogEvo: A Computerized Cognitive Function Assessment Tool

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of primary care & community health 2024 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Both total CogEvo and MMSE scores significantly decreased with age.

  33. cCOG Web-Based Cognitive Assessment Tool

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2024 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cognitive testing is an essential part of clinical diagnostics and clinical trials in Alzheimer's disease.

  34. [Efficiency of computerized cognitive training for prevention of cognitive impairments and stimulation of neuroplasticity.]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Advances in gerontology = Uspekhi gerontologii 2024 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Computerized cognitive training (CCT) is a rapidly developing area of cognitive rehabilitation at the intersection of information technology and healthcare, the constantly updated results of which can be successfully translated into practical application in clinical medicine and in particular in gerontology.

  35. Multidomain Dementia Risk Reduction in Primary Care is Feasible: A Proof-of-concept study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 84 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The interventions were positively perceived, with 72.0% finding the consultation informative and 69.2% considering the app useful.

  36. Validation, Deployment, and Real-World Implementation of a Modular Toolbox for Alzheimer's Disease Detection and Dementia Risk Reduction: The AD-RIDDLE Project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2024-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Real-World Implementation, Deployment, and Validation of Early Detection Tools and Lifestyle Enhancement (AD-RIDDLE) project, recently launched with the support of the EU Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) public-private partnership and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), aims to develop, test, and deploy a modular toolbox platform that can reduce existing barriers to the timely detection, and therapeutic approaches in Alzheimer's disease (AD), thus accelerating AD innovation.

  37. Discrimination of Frailty Phenotype by KinectTM-Based Stepping Parameters

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. JAR life 2023-12-20 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The number (%) of participants with frailty were 51 (9.1).

  38. Remote and in-clinic digital cognitive screening tools outperform the MoCA to distinguish cerebral amyloid status among cognitively healthy older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-11-27 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Average performance on the episodic memory (Prices) smartphone task showed the highest accuracy (AUC = 0.77) to distinguish Aβ status.

  39. Efficacy of smartphone application-based multi-domain cognitive training in older adults without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2023-11-23 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Of 101 participants, 85 older adults without dementia (84.1%) who completed the study protocol were included in the statistical analysis.

  40. How to engage patients in computerized cognitive training: a cognitive rehabilitation expert's perspective

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology 2023-11-23 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Two major themes were identified: (1) facilitating factors and (2) difficulties related to use.

  41. Capturing learning curves with the multiday Boston Remote Assessment of Neurocognitive Health (BRANCH): Feasibility, reliability, and validity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuropsychology 2023-11-16 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Multiday BRANCH is a feasible, reliable, and valid cognitive measure that may be useful for identifying subtle changes in learning and memory processes in older adults.

  42. Technology caregiver intervention for Alzheimer's disease (I-CARE): Feasibility and preliminary efficacy of Brain CareNotes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2023-09-14 Caregiving

    The enrollment rate was acceptable despite pandemic related challenges (53/60 target recruitment sample).

  43. Enhancing cognitive control in amnestic mild cognitive impairment via at-home non-invasive neuromodulation in a randomized trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Scientific reports 2023-05-08 Prevention trials

    Individuals with multi-domain amnestic mild cognitive impairment (md-aMCI) have an elevated risk of dementia and need interventions that may retain or remediate cognitive function.

  44. Relationships between hourly cognitive variability and risk of Alzheimer's disease revealed with mixed-effects location scale models

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neuropsychology 2023-04-20 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Preclinical AD risk, defined as possessing at least one APOE ε4 allele, is not only associated with mean-level performance differences, but also with increases in variability across repeated testing occasions particularly on a test of processing speed.

  45. Feasibility and acceptability of remote smartphone cognitive testing in frontotemporal dementia research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023-04-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    These findings suggest that the ALLFTD-mApp study protocol is feasible and acceptable for remote FTD research.

  46. Supervised, Self-Administered Tablet-Based Cognitive Assessment in Neurodegenerative Disorders and Stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2023-03-30 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Statistically significant Pearson correlations between the neuropsychological tests and their tablet equivalents were found for all domains with moderate (r > 0.3) or strong (r > 0.7) correlations in 16 of 17 tests (p < 0.05).

  47. The effects of a mobile-based multi-domain intervention on cognitive function among older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Preventive medicine reports 2023-02-24 Prevention trials

    Behavioral and social research has stressed the importance of multi-domain lifestyle interventions to prevent, delay, or remedy age-related cognitive decline among older adults at high risk for dementia.

  48. Ethical issues when using digital biomarkers and artificial intelligence for the early detection of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Data mining and knowledge discovery 2023-02-19 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Dementia poses a growing challenge for health services but remains stigmatized and under-recognized.

  49. Validity and reliability of a computerized cognitive function evaluation battery (CogEvo) as a screening tool

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences 2023-01-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Exploratory factor analysis revealed the orientation/spatial cognitive function (orientation and spatial cognition) and attention/executive function (attention, memory, and execution) factors.

  50. Speech biomarkers of risk factors for vascular dementia in people with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in human neuroscience 2022-12-15 Risk factors

    We found that some speech parameters of frequencies and syllabic rhythm vary due to these pathologies.

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