Medscape April 4, 2024
Cognitive assessments administered via a smartphone app are a reliable and valid way to detect frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in high-risk individuals, new research showed.
Cognitive tests administered remotely on the phone “showed similar findings as our gold standard in-clinic cognitive tests and brain imaging,” study investigator Adam M. Staffaroni, PhD, with the Memory and Aging Center, University of California San Francisco, told Medscape Medical News.
“We also provided evidence that these assessments may be useful for detecting early symptoms of the disease at a level that is on par, or perhaps slightly better, than our gold standard in-person tests,” Staffaroni said.
The study was published online on April 1 in JAMA Network Open.
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