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Web-based Cognitive Assessment in Health and Disease
Scalable online tools to detect, measure, and monitor cognitive change across clinical populations
Discover how validated web-based cognitive tools can identify brain fog, track post-COVID cognition, and scale assessment beyond the walls of any clinic.
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Course Description
Patients recovering from COVID-19, concussion, or critical illness often report cognitive symptoms that clinical observation alone cannot quantify. Brain fog, slowed processing, and impaired reasoning are real, measurable, and clinically significant, yet most clinicians lack scalable tools to capture them objectively.
This course, presented by Dr. Adrian Owen, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Western Ontario, introduces the science and application of web-based cognitive assessment. Clinicians gain a working understanding of how validated online batteries detect domain-specific deficits across large and geographically distributed populations. The framework applies directly to post-COVID cognitive sequelae, concussion monitoring, and long-term neurological follow-up, giving practitioners a rigorous, evidence-based approach to assessment that extends well beyond the traditional clinical encounter.
What you’ll learn:
- Explain the neuroanatomical basis of validated computerized cognitive test design
- Distinguish domain-specific cognitive deficits from generalized impairment
- Apply web-based cognitive tools to monitor post-COVID and concussion patients
- Interpret individualized cognitive scores using normative population data
- Evaluate the cognitive sequelae of COVID-19 using large-scale assessment data
More About This Course
Cognitive dysfunction following COVID-19, concussion, and critical illness is among the most clinically pressing challenges in modern neuroscience. Patients describe brain fog, slowed processing, and word-finding difficulties, yet the tools available in most clinical environments were not designed to detect or monitor these deficits at the precision or scale that patients and clinicians need. Web-based cognitive assessment is redefining what is possible in neurological evaluation, offering validated, sensitive, and scalable alternatives to traditional paper-and-pencil neuropsychological testing.
This course equips clinicians with a rigorous, research-grounded understanding of how web-based cognitive batteries work, what they measure, and how they can be applied to real clinical populations. Drawing on more than thirty years of development and over ten million completed assessments through the Cambridge Brain Sciences platform, the content covers the neuroanatomical foundations of cognitive testing, the distinction between domain-specific and global impairment, the use of normative databases for individualized scoring, and the application of longitudinal tracking tools in post-COVID and post-concussion populations. Clinicians leave with a coherent framework for integrating objective cognitive monitoring into patient follow-up, regardless of geographic or logistical constraints.
This course is designed for licensed clinicians in functional neurology, functional medicine, chiropractic neurology, rehabilitation, and related disciplines who manage patients with neurological symptoms and want to apply evidence-based cognitive assessment tools at a level consistent with current neuroscience research.
Dr. Adrian Owen is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of Western Ontario. Author of more than three hundred peer-reviewed publications, he is internationally recognized for his landmark research on consciousness in disorders of awareness and for developing the Cambridge Brain Sciences cognitive assessment battery. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2019 for services to scientific research.
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Educational Syllabus
- From Bench to Browser, Building Cognitive Tests That Map the Brain
- Trace the thirty-year development of computerized cognitive assessment, from early touchscreen CANTAB research to web-delivered batteries validated against lesion patients and functional neuroimaging data.
- Scaling Assessment Beyond the Clinic with Web-Based Cognitive Tools
- Explore how validated online batteries enable large-scale research and individualized clinical monitoring across geographically distributed populations, including ICU survivors, concussion patients, and long-COVID cohorts.
- What Concussion Really Does to the Brain, and How to Detect It
- Examine large-scale data showing that concussion produces a specific, measurable deficit in inhibitory control while leaving most cognitive domains intact, and learn how this finding was confirmed across contact sport populations.
- Unpacking Brain Fog, Cognitive Effects of COVID-19 Revealed
- Review findings from the COVID Brain Study showing that post-COVID cognitive deficits align with physical symptom severity, not mental health factors, and that reasoning and processing speed are preferentially affected.
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Web-based Cognitive Assessment in Health and Disease
Discover how validated web-based cognitive tools can identify brain fog, track post-COVID cognition, and scale assessment beyond the walls of any clinic.
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