Expanding the brain health toolkit with mobile neurobehavioral tests — aka a “brain thermometer”?

Army touts ‘brain ther­mome­ter’ as front-line tool (Army Times):

“Army medics will soon use what’s been dubbed a “brain ther­mome­ter”: a mobile phone appli­ca­tion that can, with­in min­utes, pro­vide health pro­fes­sion­als data to help diag­nose and mea­sure a sol­dier’s injuries…

The Defense Auto­mat­ed Neu­robe­hav­ioral Assess­ment, pro­duced by Anthro­Tron­ix, includes five‑, 20- and 45-minute bat­ter­ies of both neu­rocog­ni­tive tests and psy­cho­log­i­cal sur­vey ques­tions. DANA will not only help a health pro­fes­sion­al diag­nose trau­mat­ic brain injury, but also pro­vide valu­able infor­ma­tion that can help iso­late depres­sion, post-trau­mat­ic stress, and oth­er neu­rocog­ni­tive issues, accord­ing to Anthro­Tron­ix CEO Corin­na Lathan…

The tool will not replace the man­dat­ed pen­cil-and-paper Mil­i­tary Acute Con­cus­sion Eval­u­a­tion as an in-the­ater assess­ment, nor the com­put­er-based Auto­mat­ed Neu­ropsy­cho­log­i­cal Assess­ment Met­ric used for a pre-deploy­ment base­lines. Atchi­son said that would be a mat­ter of pol­i­cy and doc­trine changes out­side the scope of the joint project. But clin­i­cians can used DANA now to sup­ple­ment that information.”

–> Learn more by check­ing out the ses­sion on Best prac­tices to assess and enhance brain func­tion via mobile devices and wear­ables, held at the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: