Topic: diagnostic tests

Developmental prosopagnosia is characterised by severe, lifelong difficulties when recognising facial identity. Most researchers require prosopagnosia cases exhibit ultra-conservative levels of impairment on the Cambridge Face Memory Test before they include them in their experiments. This results in the majority of people who believe that they have this condition being excluded from the scientific literature. In this talk I outline the many issues that will afflict prosopagnosia research if this continues, and show that these excluded cases do exhibit impairments on all commonly used diagnost

Scientists work in laboratories; comfortable spaces which we equip and configure to be ideal for our needs. The scientific paradigm has been adopted by clinicians, who run diagnostic tests and treatments in fully equipped hospital facilities. Yet advances in technology mean that that increasingly many functions of a laboratory can be compressed into miniature devices, or even into a smartphone app. This has the potential to be transformative for healthcare in developing nations, allowing complex tests and interventions to be made available in every village. In this talk, I will give two exampl