Insights Back to resource centre 4 June 2020 What is fatigue? Fatigue is extremely difficult to measure, and by extension manage. Read on to hear about classic definitions of fatigue, related areas of scientific interest, how it is measured, and how Cambridge Cognition plans to explore the issue. What is fatigue?Fatigue refers to whole-body exhaustion not proportional to recent activity,
Insights Back to resource centre 19 March 2020 How does an alcohol hangover affect cognition? We caught up with Lydia Devenney from Letterkenny Institute of Technology to find out why she chose CANTAB to assist her research into investigating attention, memory functioning, and mood in a natural setting with real‐life alcohol consumption levels. It may seem logical that our ability
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Insights Back to resource centre 28 February 2020 How does cognition play a role in rare diseases? Cambridge Cognition’s Jemma Clark shares her insight into how cognitive function can be affected in certain rare diseases and why it is important to include cognitive tests in rare disease trials. Uncommon in aetiology, rare diseases are thought to impact limited populations. However,
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Insights Back to resource centre 11 October 2019 How to choose the right assessment of social cognition for your study The Emotion Recognition Task (ERT) and Emotion Bias Task (EBT) both assess social cognition, but which is more appropriate for different participant groups? What are the CANTAB social cognition tasks? On the face of it, ERT and EBT appear analogous
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Insights Back to resource centre 17 September 2019 Are memory impairments in early and chronic schizophrenia related to the volume of particular hippocampal subfields? Cassandra Wannan, final year PhD student at the University of Melbourne, shared the role that CANTAB played in her latest publication: Hippocampal subfields and visuospatial associative memory across stages of schizophrenia-spectrum disorder. Can you tell us
Insights Back to resource centre 3 September 2019 What is the value of including cognitive assessments in the quantification of vascular and neuronal pathology in dementia using PET and MRI? We caught up with researchers from the Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, University of Manchester to discuss the role that CANTAB plays in their cutting-edge neuroimaging study. Can you
Insights Back to resource centre 13 August 2019 Why does the largest twins registry in the UK use CANTAB? TwinsUK has been using CANTAB for the last 10 years to enable their multi-modal, longitudinal research into typical and pathological ageing. We caught up with the Project Coordinator, Taha Bhatti, to discuss the cohort’s experience of completing the tasks, and transitioning
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Insights Back to resource centre 28 May 2019 Could colour blindness be affecting the results of your study? With colour vision deficiency affecting an estimated 300 million people worldwide, we consider how colour blindness might affect participants’ performance on cognitive tests, and what measures can be taken to minimise the impact on study results. What is colour blindness?Colour blindness, or
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Insights Can stress at work affect cognitive performance? 17 April 2019 Back to resource centre The Health and Safety Executive states that over 11 million days are lost at work each year because of stress; but what is stress, how does it affect the body and brain, and what can be done to minimise any negative impact at work? What
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Insights Back to resource centre 1 April 2019 How to set achievable research goals What is realistic? What is feasible? What can be achieved? Setting realistic study designs and goals is vital for building a strong reputation as a researcher, and for success, but is not always easily achieved. When thinking about what is realistic, bear in mind different types
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