Investigating the application of "Guttmann Cognitest"^® in older adults and people with acquired brain injury.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Digital solutions for cognitive assessment are currently not only widely used in experimental contexts but can also be useful in clinical practice for efficient screening and longitudinal follow-up. The "Guttmann Cognitest"^®, which includes seven computerized tasks designed to assess main cognitive functions, revealed in a previous validation study to be a potential useful tool to assess cognitive functioning in healthy middle-aged adults.

Method

Here, we present results from a validation in two different populations: one consisting of older adults, and the other comprising young and middle-aged individuals, some of them affected by acquired brain injury. To perform a convergent validity test, older adults were also administered with the MOCA, while y

SUBMITTER: Cattaneo G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10800697 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature