| Custom Content | Poster Session 04 Program Schedule
02/15/2024
12:00 pm - 01:15 pm
Room: Shubert Complex (Posters 1-60)
Poster Session 04: Neuroimaging | Neurostimulation/Neuromodulation | Teleneuropsychology/Technology
Final Abstract #1
Poster Symposium: Summary
Novel Technology-Based Approaches for Cognitive Assessment
Category: Assessment/Psychometrics/Methods (Adult)
Keyword 1: assessment
Keyword 2: technology
Keyword 3: aging disorders
Summary Abstract:
Traditional neuropsychological evaluations are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and often rely on measures that have inherent cultural and language-based biases. In addition, these assessments can be difficult for patients to access due to financial limitations, geographical barriers, and/or mobility restrictions. For these reasons, there is a pressing need to improve access to sensitive, low-burden, culturally-unbiased neurocognitive evaluations. In this symposium, we focus on a range of innovative approaches designed to overcome many of the challenges associated with traditional evaluations. Specifically, we discuss the benefits of leveraging smartphones to capture subtle cognitive changes across a range of neurodegenerative disorders and using video-based eye-tracking methods to provide a language- and culturally-neutral assessment of cognition. In the first talk, Dr. Mark Sanderson will discuss a smartphone-based assessment for tracking cognitive changes in frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Next, Dr. Emily Paolillo will show that metrics of overall daily smartphone use are sensitive to disease severity and clinical progression in frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Dr. Kathryn Papp will then discuss how learning curves derived from one week of brief daily cognitive testing can serve as a sensitive measure of subtle cognitive changes in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease. Next, Dr. Jason Hassenstab will discuss the development of a smartphone application to assess cognition with “burst” testing in people with Down syndrome at risk for Alzheimer’s disease. In the last presentation, Dr. Rachel Yep will present work demonstrating that eye tracking methods can provide a language- and culturally-neutral assessment of cognition across racial/ethnical groups. Together, these presentations will demonstrate the utility of innovative technologies to improve the accessibility, precision, and relevance of neuropsychological assessments. These talks aim to stimulate further dialogue regarding how methodological innovation can lead to more equitable and effective cognitive assessment tools. Drs. Emily Paolillo and Jennifer Rabin will serve as co-chairs for this symposium.
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