Smartphone Screenings: Assessing Memory and Cognition using a Mobile App

Dementia Matters

What if you could test your cognition from the comfort of your own home using a smartphone? Drs. David Berron and Lindsay Clark have spent years researching cognitive neuroscience, culminating in a 2024 published study investigating the effectiveness of a smartphone app as a tool for detecting cognitive impairment outside of a clinic or research setting. Drs. Berron and Clark join Dementia Matters to discuss how the app and tests were developed, the benefits and drawbacks of this approach and the implications of remote testing in the healthcare field.

Guests: David Berron, PhD, Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience research group leader, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), and Lindsay Clark, PhD, licensed neuropsychologist, clinical core co-lead, Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC), assistant professor, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Show Notes

Read Drs. Berron and Clark’s study, “A remote digital memory composite to detect cognitive impairment in memory clinic samples in unsupervised settings using mobile devices,” online through the journal npj Digital Medicine.

Learn more about Dr. Berron and his research on his website.

Learn more about Dr. Clark on her profile on the Wisconsin ADRC’s website.

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