Meet the Team
A family company, built around one idea.
MemTrax started at a kitchen table, not in a boardroom. A neuroscientist who had spent thirty years studying how Alzheimer's takes memory apart, and a family who thought the test he built should be available to everyone — not just the patients who make it to a specialist.
The people behind it.
Curtis Ashford
CEO & Founder
As a psychology major I was always interested in cognitive tests, so I had an idea: bring them online. By mixing science, technology, and teamwork we can make something genuinely useful.
Dr. Ashford
Inventor
Director at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Clinical Professor at Stanford University, and Senior Research Scientist at the Stanford Aging Clinical Research Center. His work focuses on more effective tools for Alzheimer's measurement and detection.
Read his research →
Joanne Ashford
CFO
Keeps an independent, self-funded company running — which is what lets MemTrax answer to the people taking the test rather than to outside investors.
What we're actually trying to do.
Alzheimer's is complicated, and the field is still assembling the picture. But the memory impairment starts roughly a decade before anyone gets a diagnosis — and that decade is the only window where knowing changes anything. Our job is to make checking simple enough that people do it more than once, and rigorous enough that the result means something when they do.
How we work.
Science first, always
Every claim on this site traces back to published work. When we don't have the evidence, we say so.
Repeatable by design
A screening test you take once is a curiosity. We built ours to be taken again and again, because the trend is the point.
Independent
Self-funded and family-run for over fifteen years. No outside pressure to overstate what the test can tell you.
Check your memory.
Three minutes for a baseline. Come back whenever you want to know if anything has changed.