At Alzheimer's Association international Conference in London, Yembe Njamnshi received the "paper of the year" award from the Technology and Dementia PIA for his paper "Tablet-based Cognitive Assessment Tool (TabCAT) in a multisite study of early-onset Alzheimer's disease" (link here).
Yembe is a physician and researcher who spent a year in our group during his Atlantic fellowship at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), mentored by Renaud La Joie. During this time, he worked on the validation of Tablet based cognitive assessment using the TabCAT platform in the large Longitudinal Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease Study (LEADS). This study involved 1) assessing TabCAT correlations with classic pen-and-paper cognitive tests; 2) testing its ability to differentiate individuals with normal cognition, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia; 3) determining associations between TabCAT scores and amyloid and tau PET.
After his fellowship, Yembe went back to Cameroon, where he is leading multiple research studies, including a project to adapt and validate TabCAT for Cameroonian individuals.
