About Us

What is Cogtale?

CogTale is a comprehensive database and repository which provides easy access to information about the results from trials in the field of cognitive interventions for older adults.

CogTale hopes to provide researchers and members of the public with clear, evidence-based information to help answer questions about cognitive interventions.

With Cogtale, you can:

Perform a Literature search on topics related to Cognitive Treatments for older adults. Information about methodological features, risk of bias and summary of results are published and easy to access for each study.

Select studies to combine to create an automatic meta-analysis and have a report sent to you with the results.

Browse our resources to find information about cognitive treatments for older adults.

CogTale is currently in a ‘pilot’ phase (Beta Release), which means that data and articles are being continuously added to the platform, and the website is subject to regular change.

Meet the CogTale team

Our team consists of leading clinical researchers located around the world, passionate about developing effective lifestyle interventions to prevent or minimise cognitive decline.

Alex Bahar-Fuchs, Ph.D.

Project Director
Deakin University, Australia

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Alex Bahar-Fuchs, Ph.D.

Alex is a neuropsychologist and researcher. His research interests include: non-pharmacological interventions aimed at primary and secondary prevention of cognitive decline and dementia.
Alex is a founding member and Chair of CIDER – an International Working Group, focused on the advancement of methodological quality of cognition-focused intervention trials for people at risk of dementia. He is also the Chair (2016-2018) of the Non-Pharmacological Interventions Professional Interest Area (PIA) of the International Society for the Advancement of Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment (ISTAART).

Benjamin Hampstead, Ph.D., ABPP/CN

The University of Michigan, USA

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Benjamin Hampstead, Ph.D., ABPP/CN

Benjamin is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, USA.
His research interests include: neuropsychological assessment of aging, dementia, stroke, and epilepsy, cognitive effects of chronic stress/post-traumatic stress disorder, and non-pharmacologic intervention for enhancing cognitive, emotional, and everyday functioning.

Sylvie Belleville, Ph.D.

Université de Montreal, Canada

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Sylvie Belleville, Ph.D.

Dr Sylvie Belleville is a full professor in psychology at Université de Montreal and the research director of the Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal (IUGM).

Her research interests include: cognitive deficits in normal aging, mild cognitive impairment, subjective cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease, efficacy and neuronal correlates of cognitive training, the role of virtual reality and mobile applications to measure and train real-life cognition.

Tzvi Dwolatzky, MD

Rambam Health Care, Israel

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Tzvi Dwolatzky, MD

Tzvi is the Director of Geriatrics and the Center for Healthy Aging at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel, and is Vice Dean and Director of the American Medical School at the Bruce and Ruth Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He graduated in medicine at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa and has since devoted his professional career to the field of Geriatrics and to Medical Education. He is the chairman of the Israel Geriatrics Society, is a member of the Full Board of the European Geriatric Medicine Society, and is the Editor of the Geriatric Section of the Frontiers in Medicine Journal.

His research and clinical interests include: the use of technology for the diagnosis and treatment of age-associated cognitive impairment and dementia, healthy aging and centenarians, frailty, integrated health care for the elderly, and global health issues.

Sharon Sanz-Simon, Ph.D.

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Sharon Sanz-Simon, Ph.D.

Sharon Sanz-Simon, Ph.D.
Sharon is a neuropsychologist and a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University Medical Center, USA. She is also member of the Old Age Research Group at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Her research and clinical interests include: healthy aging, age-related cognitive changes, mild cognitive impairment, personality-cognition relations, integration of technology in cognitive intervention, and the impact of lifestyle/non-pharmacological intervention on cognition, emotion, and everyday life.

Amit Lampit, Ph.D.

University of Melbourne, Australia

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Amit Lampit, Ph.D

Amit is a CR Roper Senior Research Fellow and clinical neuroscientist specialising in cognitive training across the lifespan and brain disorders, clinical trials and research synthesis. He holds a dual position as Assistant Director (evidence synthesis) at the National Disability Insurance Agency, and affiliated researcher at the Biostatistics & Clinical Epidemiology node at the Methods and Implementation Support for Clinical and Health research Hub (MISCH).
His research interests include: cognitive training methodology, multi-domain interventions, clinical trials, evidence synthesis and functional assessment using spatial mapping technologies. He is leading the development of CogTale’s raw data repository/individual participant data platform.

Courtney Chesser, BPsy (Hons)

Deakin University, Australia

Advisory Board

CogTale has an advisory board consisting of clinicians, research experts in the field of cognitive-oriented interventions, media personnel, and consumer representatives.

Support

CogTale is a not-for-profit project. CogTale is currently funded through a National Insitute of Health (NIH) R35 subaward. Dr. Bahar-Fuchs was previously supported by the Dementia Australia Research Foundation (formerly Alzheimer’s Australia Dementia Research Foundation), the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration (DCRC) and a Boosting Dementia Leadership Research Fellowship from the National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia, to establish the beta version of this platform. More funding is required to maintain and improve the existing platform and to continuously enter new content. Should you wish to provide support (one-off or ongoing) to the CogTale program, please get in touch, via our contact form.

How can I use CogTale?

Search our database and perform a meta analysis.

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