Guidance for including elderly patients in clinical trials

Insights Back to resource centre 14 July 2020 Guidance for including elderly patients in clinical trials Older adults shoulder a disproportionate burden of chronic diseases and consumption of prescription drugs. Nevertheless, older adults, especially those aged over 75 years, are chronically under-represented in clinical trials. In this two part series, Dr Kiri Granger explores the risks of under-presentation and outlines

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How do patients with chronic health conditions experience and manage their fatigue?

Insights Back to resource centre 17 June 2020 How do patients with chronic health conditions experience and manage their fatigue? Fatigue is multifaceted, complicated and changeable. In order to delve deeper into the complexities of living with fatigue we asked patients with chronic health conditions to share their experiences. Read on to find out what we heard. What does fatigue

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Remote cognitive testing: what are the scientific and operational considerations?

Insights Back to resource centre 11 June 2020 Remote cognitive testing: what are the scientific and operational considerations? Remote testing solutions for clinical trials and academic research are increasingly being adopted resulting in time and cost savings for clinical research studies and reduced participation burden for study patients. However, not every study is suitable for this medium. In this article

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What is fatigue?

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,

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Elderly patients in clinical trials: addressing the evidence-practice gap

Webinars Back to resource centre 11 January 2023 Elderly patients in clinical trials: addressing the evidence-practice gap Despite carrying the largest burden of chronic diseases and taking more prescription medications than any other group, older adults are consistently under-represented in clinical trials. The complex, and therefore risky, treatment needs associated with older adults is often what makes sponsors hesitant to

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How does an alcohol hangover affect cognition?

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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How does cognition play a role in rare diseases?

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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Future directions in eCOA: Innovations in high-frequency and automated voice-based testing

Webinars Back to resource centre 11 January 2023 Future directions in eCOA: Innovations in high-frequency and automated voice-based testing As drug development programmes increasingly demand real-world data collection – are the current eCOA instruments fit for purpose? Which innovations will change the landscape, what are the challenges and how might we overcome them? In this webinar Chief Technology Officer at

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Pro-cognitive drug trial failures in schizophrenia: the need for cognitive screening?

Webinars Back to resource centre 11 January 2023 Pro-cognitive drug trial failures in schizophrenia: the need for cognitive screening? Despite a wealth of research, pharmaceutical companies have thus far been unsuccessful in their attempts to address cognitive impairment in schizophrenia. This begs the question: are these compounds truly ineffective or has trial methodology itself been a limiting factor in successfully

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How to choose the right assessment of social cognition for your study

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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