Development of a neural brain assessment tool**

神经脑评估工具的开发**

• 批准号: 537385-2018
• 负责人: Krigolson, Olave
• 金额: $ 1.8万
• 依托单位: University of Victoria
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=656010
• 关键词: Development; neural; brain; assessment; tool

Optometrists work to improve our vision but they face a crucial problem - while it is easy to assess the impact of their interventions behaviourally through simple examination it is considerably harder to gauge how the brain is responding to these changes. The proposed project seeks to address this issue - here we will utilize leading edge neuroscience knowledge and technology to develop a neural brain assessment tool that will allow optometrists and other users to quantitatively measure changes in brain function brought about by medical interventions. Specifically, the proposed prototype tool developed here will use mobile electroencephalography (EEG, or brain waves) in conjunction with specifically designed software to evoke and measure event-related brain potentials (ERPs) - the brains response to specific events. People who use the developed tool will play a series of games on an Apple computer while their EEG is measured via a MUSE headband - a commercially available product made by InterAxon Inc. in Toronto. The software will analyze the neural response to events in the games and these data will be turned into a series of brain scores that can be measured repeatedly to track changes in brain performance. ** DBA Opto-mization Neurovisual Performance's partnership with Dr. Krigolson's laboratory will result in a new software product that will allow optometrists, scientists, and researchers to easily quantify a person brain scores to assess changes in brain performance. Given a recent increase in interest in examining changes in brain function related to medical interventions, the proposed project will provide a way for this to be accomplished in an easy manner. The project will also establish pathways toward intensified consumer and research projects afforded by the developed software that will carry DBA Opto-mization Neurovisual Performance into new industry verticals in medical and healthcare-related fields.

验光师致力于改善我们的视力，但他们面临着一个关键的问题--虽然通过简单的检查很容易评估他们的干预措施对行为的影响，但要衡量大脑对这些变化的反应要难得多。拟议的项目旨在解决这一问题-在这里，我们将利用尖端的神经科学知识和技术来开发一种神经大脑评估工具，使验光师和其他用户能够定量测量医疗干预带来的大脑功能变化。具体地说，这里开发的拟议原型工具将使用移动脑电图仪(EEG)和专门设计的软件来唤醒和测量事件相关脑电位(ERPs)-大脑对特定事件的反应。使用开发的工具的人将在苹果电脑上玩一系列游戏，同时他们的脑电通过缪斯发带测量，缪斯发带是多伦多InteraXon公司生产的一种商业产品。该软件将分析对游戏中事件的神经反应，这些数据将被转换为一系列大脑分数，可以重复测量，以跟踪大脑表现的变化。*DBA Optomization Neurovision Performance与克里格森博士的实验室的合作将产生一种新的软件产品，使验光师、科学家和研究人员能够轻松地量化一个人的大脑分数，以评估大脑性能的变化。鉴于最近人们对研究与医疗干预相关的大脑功能变化的兴趣增加，拟议的项目将提供一种轻松实现这一目标的方法。该项目还将为通过开发的软件提供强化的消费者和研究项目铺平道路，这些软件将把DBA光学神经视觉性能带入医疗和保健相关领域的新行业垂直市场。