New Game Creation: Cognitive Performance via Brain Evoked Potentials

随着神经系统疾病发病率和患病率的增加、人们对神经退行性疾病的认识不断提高、创伤性脑损伤数量的增加以及脑监测在临床试验中的应用不断增加，脑监测变得越来越重要。加拿大公司 Interaxon 开发了 Muse，这是一种大脑感应可穿戴脑电图技术，允许用户通过移动应用程序获取睡眠时大脑活动、正念和冥想练习的实时和训练后指标。 Interaxon 寻求创建一个神经科学研究应用程序，以探索虚拟现实中视觉诱发的 ERP（事件相关电位）大脑反应，并将其集成到其现有应用程序中。当前的项目将考虑不同的 VR 内容和交互作为潜在事件刺激，通过大脑诱发电位来测量认知表现。该项目的成功将证明 MuseVR 解决方案可在 VR 应用程序中使用，以测量自然游戏环境中的认知表现。一旦得到确认，这种能力将为开发与大脑健康相关的数字疗法的产品/应用奠定基础。 Interaxon 预计于 2021 年第四季度发布 MuseVR 硬件产品，并更新了 SDK，其中包括精确的刺激时间同步功能。这将使他们能够进入新市场，扩大客户群，从而增加收入。

Brain monitoring is becoming ever more essential in the increasing incidence and prevalence of neurologicaldisorders, rising awareness of neurodegenerative diseases, growth in the number of traumatic brain injuries,and increasing applications of brain monitoring in clinical trials. Interaxon, a Canadian-based company hasdeveloped Muse, which is a brain-sensing wearable EEG technology, which allows the users to get real-timeand post-session metrics on their brain activity while sleeping, and their mindfulness, and meditation practicethrough a mobile application. Interaxon seeks to create a neuroscience research application to explore visuallyevoked ERP (Event Related Potential) brain responses in virtual reality integrated into its existing application.The current project will consider different VR content and interactions as potential event stimuli for measuringcognitive performance via brain evoked potentials. Success of this project will demonstrate a capability thatthe MuseVR solution can be used within VR applications to measure cognitive performance in a naturalgaming environment. Once confirmed, this capability sets the foundation for the development of product /applications for digital therapeutics related to brain health. Interaxon anticipates releasing the MuseVRhardware offering in Q4 2021, with an updated SDK that includes accurate stimulus time synchronizationcapabilities. This will enable them to enter a new market, grow their client base and hence grow their revenues.