By providing access to tests for cognition, motor function, sensation, and emotion, an app may enhance patient care.

Published Date: 26 Apr 2023

Doctors can now screen patients ages 3 to 85 using an iPad app developed at Northwestern Medicine that helps measure specific aspects of cognitive, motor, sensory, and emotional function in five minutes or less.

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