How to Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Early Using Sensitive Cognitive Tests

Introduction:

Speaker profile: Professor Trevor Robbins

Trevor Robbins is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and has been Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge since 2002.

He is also Director of the Cambridge University MRC-Wellcome Trust funded Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute (BCNI), the main objective of which is to inter-relate basic and clinical research in psychiatry and neurology.

About this video

Detecting Alzheimer’s disease early on greatly improves treatment outcomes. Watch this video to learn more about the importance of detecting early Alzheimer’s detection - and how CANTAB technology, such as the Paired Associates Learning (PAL) task can help identify Alzheimer’s disease before symptom onset.