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Chelsie Derman

A trial demonstrated the reliability and validity of a smartphone app’s capability of detecting frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

A new study found smartphone tests accurately detected dementia and were more adept at identifying the earliest stages of familial frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) than standard neuropsychological tests.1 With this, the app may detect FTD in gene carriers before symptoms appear.

“This is the first study, to our knowledge, to provide analogous support for the reliability and validity of remote cognitive testing via smartphones in FTLD and preliminary evidence that this approach improves early detection relative to traditional in-person measures,” wrote investigators, led by Adam M. Staffaroni, PhD, from the Memory and Aging Center at Weill Institute for Neurosciences at the University of...

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