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Remote Digital Assessments for Cognitive Disorders

A Remote, AI-enabled Multimodal Digital Platform for Timely Detection and Monitoring of Cognitive Disorders: a Study Protocol (MonitorCog-AI)

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 20 Oct 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

Memory and thinking problems in older adults, including mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), can be difficult to assess promptly because evaluation often depends on in-person specialist visits. MonitorCog-AI is a computer-based platform designed to provide a more accessible way to assess and monitor cognitive changes using standard computers or tablets. Artificial intelligence (AI) will be used to analyze the digital information collected by the platform and examine whether combining several types of measures improves assessment of cognitive impairment. The study will include 60 adults aged 50 years and older: 20 healthy adults, 20 adults with MCI, and 20 adults with AD. Participants will be assessed at baseline, 6 months, and 12 months. At each timepoint, participants will complete one clinical assessment and one digital assessment. The clinical assessment will include standard measures of memory and thinking, an assessment of daily functioning, and a brief recording of brain electrical activity. The digital assessment will take approximately 60-80 minutes and will assess five areas: cognition, eye movements measured using a webcam, language, speech, and fine-motor performance measured using a mouse. At baseline, the digital assessment will be completed in the clinic; at 6 and 12 months, it will usually be completed remotely at home. The study has three main goals. First, it will determine whether MonitorCog-AI is feasible, acceptable, easy to use, and not overly burdensome for repeated assessment. Second, it will examine how well AI-based analysis of the digital measures distinguishes healthy adults, adults with MCI, and adults with AD, and whether combining several types of digital information performs better than any single type alone. Third, it will examine how digital measures change over 12 months and whether these changes are related to changes in clinical measures of cognition and daily functioning.

Status (registry)
Not yet recruiting
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
60 (estimated)
First submitted
1 Oct 2026
Start date
1 Nov 2026
Primary completion date
31 Mar 2028
Lead sponsor
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
NCT number
NCT07883746

What you commit to

  • Study type: Observational
  • Planned participants: 60
  • From 1 Nov 2026 to the primary completion date, 31 Mar 2028
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

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Prior treatment

  • Recent psychotropic medication changes likely to affect cognition.

Other illness

  • Major psychiatric, neurological, or unstable medical condition that may interfere with study participation.
  • Current or recent substance-use disorder.
  • Uncorrectable visual impairment that would interfere with computerized assessment.
  • Motor impairment preventing use of a mouse or touchpad.

Other

  • Participation in a conflicting interventional clinical trial.

Who the study is looking for

  • Age 50 years or older.
  • Sufficient English literacy to complete study assessments.
  • Capacity to provide informed consent.
  • Ability to attend in-person study assessments.
  • Healthy controls: Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score \>26 and no history of a DSM-5 neurocognitive disorder.
  • Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) group: meets DSM-5 criteria for mild neurocognitive disorder based on clinical adjudication.
  • Alzheimer's disease (AD) group: meets DSM-5 criteria for major neurocognitive disorder due to AD based on clinical adjudication.

Age in the registry: 50 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
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TorontoCanadaUnknown status

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