Blog
26 February 2019
What is the role of neighbourhood greenspace in children’s spatial working memory?
Professor Eirini Flouri spoke to us about why they chose CANTAB to investigate children’s spatial working memory in a large, epidemiological study.
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6 February 2019
Occupational rehabilitation: improving attention is associated with return to work
Dr Thomas Johansen from the Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Occupational Rehabilitation talked us through why he chose CANTAB to investgate whether improving cognitive function during occupational rehabilitation improves return to work.
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14 January 2019
Does neuregulin 1 affect executive function in autism spectrum disorder?
We caught up with Dr Arvin Haghighatfard to discuss why he chose CANTAB to investigate the effects of neuregulin 1 on executive dysfunction in autism spectrum disorder.
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8 January 2019
Examination of the Neural Basis of Psychotic-like Experiences in Adolescence During Reward Processing
We caught up with Dr Evangelos Papanastasiou to discuss his latest publication, and the next steps for improving the early diagnosis of psychotic illness.
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18 December 2018
6 tests for assessing cognition in Parkinson’s disease
Cognitive dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease remains a significant, unmet therapeutic need for patients; as such it is vital that there is rigorous research into the topic. Here we will discuss six CANTAB tasks that can address this research gap.
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5 December 2018
Normative data from linear and non-linear quantile regression in CANTAB: cognition in mid-to-late life in an epidemiological sample
Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring recently published the first study to derive normative CANTAB data from quantile regressions of cognitive test performance for a large epidemiological sample of adults aged 57-84 years.
