Center for Digital Health

Louisa Thompson, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Research Neuropsychologist in the Memory and Aging Program at Butler Hospital. Her research uses mobile phone apps and other novel digital tools to develop protocols for cognitive screening in older adults. In particular, she seeks to identify and validate digital measures that are feasible for use in primary care settings and sensitive to the subtle cognitive and neuropathological changes associated with early stage Alzheimer's disease.