AD/PD 2025 | Posters & Presentations

This year at AD/PD, we can’t wait to share our latest research with you with poster presentations from Emily Thorp, Francesca Cormack and Nick Taptiklis. 

2nd-3rd April 2025

Novel Digital Measures Of Reaction Time And Drawing Speed: A Feasibility Study In Patients With Neurodegenerative Disorders And Immune Mediated Inflammatory Disorders, by Francesca Cormack

This analysis from the feasibility study by the IDEA-FAST consortium explores digital cognitive assessments in Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, and immune-mediated inflammatory disorders. This analysis shows that these digital tools can produce measures of movement time and accuracy which are not available in pencil and paper tasks, providing an improved understanding of participant performance. Digital tools could enhance sensitivity to cognitive and motor decline in neurodegenerative disease.

4th-5th April 2025

Consistent Performance In Sustained Attention Across Online And In-Person Administration, by Emily Thorp

This study compared CANTAB® Rapid Visual Information Processing (RVP) performance with online and in-person administration methods and found no significant differences in a healthy adult population. With equivalent performance across methods, these findings validate the use of both in-person and online cognitive testing, offering greater flexibility for large-scale research and clinical trials.

Test-Retest Reliability Of CANTAB® Smartphone Battery In Healthy Adult Volunteers, by Emily Thorp

This study of 125 healthy adults details that a CANTAB smartphone cognitive assessment battery delivers good-to-excellent test-retest reliability across key cognitive domains including memory, attention, and processing speed. With high user engagement and positive feedback, these findings reinforce the potential of smartphone-based cognitive testing for large-scale, remote studies—including aging and neurodegeneration research.

Factor Analysis of Reaction Time Measures During Performance Of The Paired Associates Learning Task In People With MCI, by Nick Taptiklis

This AI-Mind study analysed 724 individuals with MCI, revealing that novel reaction time features from the CANTAB Paired Associates Learning (PAL) task offer distinct insights beyond standard PAL accuracy metrics. Factor analysis confirms that these timing-based PAL measures align with other memory latency measures, suggesting these new measures extract extra signal from this task.