Can you detect early dementia from an email? : A proof of principle study of daily computer use to detect cognitive and functional decline
- Submitting institution
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Aston University
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 35870894
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1002/gps.4863
- Title of journal
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
- Article number
- -
- First page
- 867
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 7
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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12
- Research group(s)
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A - Aston Institute of Urban Technology and the Environment (ASTUTE)
- Citation count
- 8
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Reports a cross-sectional study, showing measurable differences in the way people with mild cognitive impairment and early dementia performed computer tasks compared to healthy controls. While measures such as typing speed had been used to expose motor control deficits (e.g. Parkinson’s), this paper has been recognised by teams at (e.g.) Tufts and MIT to have established the feasibility of distinguishing between healthy and cognitively impaired users via their computer usage, where memory, executive function and motor control may all play a part (see reference to our work in https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-019-0084-2).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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