“We train our raters extensively, and we follow up individually with them. Rarely does a rater perform flawlessly the first time they give a test, and we record every error they make so that we can give them corrected feedback. In fact, we have a database of every rater we’ve ever trained and the errors they made. We can tell you what sites have the best and worst error rates. We can show how our training improves reliability in trainers and in sites.”

Dr. Richard Keefe, NeuroCog Trials CEO/Founder

Services

Detecting changes in cognition requires both neuropsychological expertise and operational experience. The staff at NeuroCog Trials draws on more than 10 years of experience to provide a complete spectrum of services to address the unique needs of cognition testing, including:

Consulting

Led by Dr. Richard Keefe, CEO and Founder, NeuroCog Trials has deep expertise in cognition assessment. From protocol design and measure selection, through to data analysis and publication in peer-reviewed journals, NeuroCog Trials’ scientific staff is able to help your drug development program meet its scientific objectives.

Site Screening

NeuroCog Trials works with our clients to help identify those sites who have had previous success at administering high quality neuropsychological assessments. By helping to choose sites with historically low placebo response rates, as well as historically high enrollment rates, we can help to get trials off to a strong start.

Rater Training and Certification

Rater training and certification is a core competency of the staff at NeuroCog Trials. We have trained and certified more than 4,000 raters around the world to administer a wide variety of neuropsychological assessments in therapeutic areas ranging from Alzheimer’s disease to schizophrenia.

Expert Data Review

NeuroCog Trials’ expert data review and quality assurance services help to reduce test administration and scoring errors, resulting in enhanced reliability. Our data review methods have evolved over more than 10 years and consistently produce reliability coefficients of .88 or higher.