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Newest in this topic

  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. Validation of a novel computerized cognitive function test for the rapid detection of mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. BMC neurology 2022-12-07 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The median (interquartile range) test time for MARC was 401 (350-453) s. Total MARC scores were significantly worse in the MCI and ADD groups than in the NDC group (p < 0.05 and p < 0.01, respectively).

  2. Usability and acceptability of wearable technology in the early detection of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-12 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Sixteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine participants, at two-time points.

  3. Telemedicine for neurological diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. European journal of neurology 2022-11-14 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Well-designed and executed RCTs are needed to confirm our findings on stroke and to have more scientific evidence available for the other neurological diseases.

  4. Unsupervised mobile app-based cognitive testing in a population-based study of older adults born 1944

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Frontiers in digital health 2022-11-08 Cognitive tests and assessment

    MDT-OS and ORR-LDR were weakly-to-moderately correlated with the Preclinical Alzheimer's Cognitive Composite (PACC5) (r = 0.3-0.44, p < .001) and with several other measures of episodic memory, processing speed, and executive function.

  5. Validation of the Remote Automated ki:e Speech Biomarker for Cognition in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Verification and Validation following DiME V3 Framework

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Digital biomarkers 2022-09-30 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Our results suggest that the ki:e SB-C is an objective, scalable, and reliable indicator of cognitive decline, fit for purpose as a remote assessment in clinical early dementia trials.

  6. Unsupervised high-frequency smartphone-based cognitive assessments are reliable, valid, and feasible in older adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2022-09-05 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Overall, the results suggest that ARC is reliable and valid and represents a feasible tool for assessing cognitive changes associated with the earliest stages of AD.

  7. Ethics of digital therapeutics (DTx)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. European review for medical and pharmacological sciences 2022-09 Prevention and risk

    Digital therapeutics (DTx) are a subset of digital health which are often coupled with artificial intelligence (A.I.) techniques and machine learning systems.

  8. Validation of the Computerized Cognitive Assessment Test: NNCT

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of environmental research and public health 2022-08-23 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Population aging brings with it cognitive impairment.

  9. A voice recognition-based digital cognitive screener for dementia detection in the community: Development and validation study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2022-07-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    A total of 103 participants completed all investigations and were included in the analysis.

  10. The application of technology to improve cognition in older adults: A review and suggestions for future directions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. PsyCh journal 2022-06-08 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The rapidly increasing worldwide population of older adults, along with the increasing prevalence of cognitive impairment and dementia in this population, is a growing health-care problem.

  11. This is the first study to investigate the effect of MAKSCog, an individualised CCT, specifically developed for people with different subtypes of MCI.

  12. A Computerized Cognitive Test Battery for Detection of Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment: Instrument Validation Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. JMIR aging 2022-04-15 Cognitive tests and assessment

    BrainCheck was able to distinguish between diagnoses of dementia, MCI, and NC, providing a potentially reliable tool for early detection of cognitive impairment.

  13. Smartphone applications for informal caregivers of chronically ill patients: a scoping review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. NPJ digital medicine 2022-03-21 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Mobile-health applications can be used to deliver timely and personalized health information to family and friends of chronically ill adults living in the community.

  14. Boston cognitive assessment (BOCA) - a comprehensive self-administered smartphone- and computer-based at-home test for longitudinal tracking of cognitive performance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. BMC neurology 2022-03-15 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Longitudinal cognitive testing is essential for developing novel preventive interventions for dementia and Alzheimer's disease; however, the few available tools have significant practice effect and depend on an external evaluator.

  15. A novel computer adaptive word list memory test optimized for remote assessment: Psychometric properties and associations with neurodegenerative biomarkers in older women without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022-03-09 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The SLS is a valid and reliable self-administered memory test that shows promise for remote assessment of aging and neurodegenerative disorders.

  16. Remote Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cognition in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Proof-of-Concept Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. JMIR formative research 2022-02-02 Risk factors

    CVRF prevalence was 62.8% (n=150) for high cholesterol, 45.2% (n=108) for hypertension, 10.9% (n=26) for atrial fibrillation, and 7.5% (n=18) for diabetes.

  17. Co-design of a Smartphone App for People Living With Dementia by Applying Agile, Iterative Co-design Principles: Development and Usability Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. JMIR mHealth and uHealth 2022-01-14 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We found patient and care partner input to be critical throughout the development process for early identification of design and usability issues and for identifying solutions not previously considered by our research team.

  18. Monthly At-Home Computerized Cognitive Testing to Detect Diminished Practice Effects in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-01-13 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Overall, individuals improved on all C3 measures over 12 months (β = 0.23, 95% CI [0.21-0.25], p < 0.001), but improvement over the first 3 months was greatest (β = 0.68, 95% CI [0.59-0.77], p < 0.001), suggesting stronger PE over initial repeated exposures.

  19. Computerized cognitive training in people with depression: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Systematic reviews 2022-01-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    To the best of our knowledge, this will be the first systematic review and meta-analysis of narrowly defined CCT across clinical populations with depression.

  20. Digital Intervention for the Management of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2022 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive, multifactorial, chronic, neurodegenerative disease with high prevalence and limited therapeutic options, making it a global health crisis.

  21. The Use of Digital Technology to Assess Cognitive Function in Tunisian Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The AD group performed significantly lower on the associative learning (p = 0.01) and associative memory assessments (p = 0.002), than the HC and AR groups.

  22. Validity of the Web-Based, Self-Directed, NeuroCognitive Performance Test in Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Cognitive tests and assessment

    In MCI subjects, the NCPT composite is significantly correlated with both a composite measure of established tests (r = 0.78, p < 0.0001) as well as with the ADAS-Cog (r = -0.55, p < 0.0001).

  23. Reproducibility and replicability of high-frequency, in-home digital biomarkers in reducing sample sizes for clinical trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2021-12-31 Cognitive tests and assessment

    For the reproducibility, identical P-values and slope estimates were found with both digital biomarkers and neuropsychological test measures between the previous and current studies.

  24. Affective Computing for Late-Life Mood and Cognitive Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2021-12-23 Risk factors

    Affective computing (also referred to as artificial emotion intelligence or emotion AI) is the study and development of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate emotion or other affective phenomena.

  25. Smartphone ownership and usage in Chinese- and English-speaking older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-12 Cognitive tests and assessment

    33 Chinese- and 117 English-speaking older adults who received a diagnosis of normal cognition or mild cognitive impairment at consensus were included in the data analysis.

  26. A Paradox in Digital Memory Assessment: Increased Sensitivity With Reduced Difficulty

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in digital health 2021-11-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The One Card Learning Test (OCL80) from the Cogstate Brief Battery-a digital cognitive test used both in-person and remotely in clinical trials and in healthcare contexts to inform health decisions-has shown high sensitivity to changes in memory in early Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  27. Using Digital Speech Assessments to Detect Early Signs of Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Frontiers in digital health 2021-10-27 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Detecting early signs of cognitive decline is crucial for early detection and treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.

  28. Unsupervised mobile cognitive testing for use in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2021-09-30 Cognitive tests and assessment

    BRANCH reliably captures meaningful cognitive information remotely, suggesting promise as a digital cognitive marker sensitive early in the AD trajectory.

  29. Digital Endpoints: Definition, Benefits, and Current Barriers in Accelerating Development and Adoption

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Digital Biomarkers 2021-09-13 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We conclude with an interdependent list of challenges that must be collaboratively addressed before these endpoints are widely adopted.

  30. Scoping review: the empowerment of Alzheimer's Disease caregivers with mHealth applications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. NPJ digital medicine 2021-09-07 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is one of the most prevalent neurodegenerative chronic diseases.

  31. Computerised cognitive remediation to enhance mobility in older adults: a single-blind, single-centre, randomised trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 84 out of 100. The lancet. Healthy longevity 2021-09-02 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Between March 1, 2016, and March 12, 2020, 383 patients were enrolled and randomly assigned to the intervention or control group.

  32. Psychological and Emotional Effects of Digital Technology on Children in COVID-19 Pandemic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain sciences 2021-08-25 Cognitive tests and assessment

    COVID-19 has caused obstacles in continuing normal life almost everywhere in the world by causing the implementation of social distancing and eventually imposing the lockdown.

  33. Validity and Cultural Generalisability of a 5-Minute AI-Based, Computerised Cognitive Assessment in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2021-07-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The ICA demonstrated convergent validity with MoCA (Pearson r=0.58, p<0.0001) and ACE (r=0.62, p<0.0001).

  34. Current advances in digital cognitive assessment for preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2021-07-20 Cognitive tests and assessment

    There is a pressing need to capture and track subtle cognitive change at the preclinical stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD) rapidly, cost-effectively, and with high sensitivity.

  35. Feasibility of Repeated Assessment of Cognitive Function in Older Adults Using a Wireless, Mobile, Dry-EEG Headset and Tablet-Based Games

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Frontiers in psychiatry 2021-06-25 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Access to affordable, objective and scalable biomarkers of brain function is needed to transform the healthcare burden of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disease.

  36. Using a Digital Neuro Signature to measure longitudinal individual-level change in Alzheimer's disease: the Altoida large cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. NPJ digital medicine 2021-06-24 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Conventional neuropsychological assessments for Alzheimer's disease are burdensome and inaccurate at detecting mild cognitive impairment and predicting Alzheimer's disease risk.

  37. Prevention of dementia using mobile phone applications (PRODEMOS): protocol for an international randomised controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. BMJ open 2021-06-09 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Profiles of high risk for future dementia are well understood and are likely to concern mostly those in low-income and middle-income countries and people at greater disadvantage in high-income countries.

  38. A community-based computerised cognitive training program for older persons with mild dementia: A pilot study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. Australasian journal on ageing 2021-05-26 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Participants in the experimental group had better overall subjective memory, subjective retrospective memory and global quality of life, with fewer depressive symptoms than those in the control group 3 months following the program.

  39. Mobile Phone Use and Cognitive Impairment among Elderly Chinese: A National Cross-Sectional Survey Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. International journal of environmental research and public health 2021-05-26 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The study aimed to investigate the relationship between mobile phone use and cognitive impairment using the data of the Prevention and Intervention on Neurodegenerative Disease for Elderly in China (PINDEC) survey.

  40. Remote monitoring technologies in Alzheimer's disease: design of the RADAR-AD study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-04-23 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Our study is well placed to evaluate the clinical utility of RMT assessments.

  41. Telemedicine and Dementia Care: A Systematic Review of Barriers and Facilitators

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2021-04-20 Risk factors

    Telemedicine is well received among patients and care partners, but successful delivery incorporates support staff and the care partners to navigate technologies.

  42. Advances in healthcare wearable devices

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. npj Flexible Electronics 2021-04-12 Risk factors

    Wearable devices have found numerous applications in healthcare ranging from physiological diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and muscle disorders to neurocognitive disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and other psychological diseases.

  43. Tablet-Based Automatic Assessment for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease Using Speech Responses to Daily Life Questions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Frontiers in digital health 2021-03-17 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Health-monitoring technologies for automatically detecting the early signs of Alzheimer's disease (AD) have become increasingly important.

  44. Continuous gait monitoring discriminates community-dwelling mild Alzheimer's disease from cognitively normal controls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2021-02-05 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Variability in step velocity and cadence had the highest predictive utility in identifying individuals with mild AD.

  45. A Brief Digital Cognitive Assessment for Detection of Cognitive Impairment in Cuban Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The BHA has excellent performance characteristics in detecting cognitive impairment including dementia and MCI in a Hispanic population in Cuba and outperformed the MoCA.

  46. Computerized cognitive stimulation for people with dementia or with mild cognitive impairment: a bibliometric review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Dementia & neuropsychologia 2021 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The data show that dementia research is exponentially developing following the evolution of widespread use of computer science.

  47. The Computerized Cognitive Composite (C3) in an Alzheimer's Disease Secondary Prevention Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2021-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    These findings provide support for both the feasibility and validity of C3 and computerized cognitive outcomes more generally in AD secondary prevention trials.

  48. Validity of the MemTrax Memory Test Compared to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in the Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia due to Alzheimer's Disease in a Chinese Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    MemTrax can effectively detect both clinically diagnosed MCI and AD with better accuracy as compared to the MoCA based on AUCs in a Chinese cohort.

  49. Choosing the right time granularity for analysis of digital biomarker trajectories

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2020-12-18 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We applied our procedure to real-world data which include longitudinal in-home monitored walking speed.

  50. Electronic Cognitive Screen Technology for Screening Older Adults With Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment in a Community Setting: Development and Validation Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of medical Internet research 2020-12-18 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Previous studies have shown that the diagnostic performance of digital cognitive tests is comparable with that of conventional paper-and-pencil tests.

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