CBC highlighted an app co-created by Martin McKeown, the director of UBC’s Pacific Parkinson’s Research Centre.
The app, called CognitiaPD, is part of a large-scale Parkinson’s study that will assemble data using mobile games. Two simple games in the app test cognition – one focuses on attention by checking response time and the other tests memory.
“This is becoming an increasingly important area in Parkinson’s. I think we’ve always known that we needed to be able to monitor people over time. I think the problem is that the technology just wasn’t there to enable us to do this,” said McKeown.
