Method for brain fingerprinting, measurement, assessment and analysis of brain function
First Claim
1. A method of using electrical brain responses to quantitatively evaluate effectiveness and speed of cognitive brain functioning for the purpose of measuring at least one of the following:
- level of cognitive functioning, cognitive deficits;
efficacy of treatments for cognitive deficits;
mental deterioration due to disease processes;
mental deterioration due to trauma;
mental deterioration due to aging;
mental deterioration due to Alzheimer'"'"'s disease; and
efficacy of treatments for said mental deterioration;
comprising;
assigning a cognitive task that has cognitive and non-cognitive aspects, wherein said cognitive task includes recognizing and responding to autobiographically relevant items or events experienced during at least one life experience of a subject as a means at least to invoke the subject'"'"'s episodic memory; and
a difficulty of said cognitive aspect depends on at least one factor affecting memorability of the items; and
wherein said cognitive aspect also involves classifying and differentially responding to the items according to a classification rule, and a difficulty of said cognitive task depends on at least one of the classification rule, the items to be classified, a number of the items to be classified, and a type of the items to be classified;
measuring behavioral output of said cognitive task and a timing of said output;
measuring and analyzing brain responses that provide an index of the effectiveness or speed of specific cognitive processes; and
quantitatively evaluating the effectiveness and speed of cognitive brain functioning and deficits based on said brain responses and said analyzing.
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Abstract
Electrical signals originating in the brain are measured and analyzed. In one embodiment, this technology serves to assess brain functioning as a means to evaluate cognitive functioning, to detect cognitive deficits such as those brought about by Alzheimer'"'"'s, and to assess the efficacy of treatments for cognitive disorders. In another embodiment, which is an improvement on technology previously patented by the inventor, this technology serves to detect information in the brain as a means of detecting participation in specific organizations, acts, or criminal activity. In a third embodiment, this technology serves to evaluate the effectiveness of advertising, educational and training presentations by detecting the attention, information processing, and memory-related responses to these presentations as revealed by brain waves.
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28 Claims
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1. A method of using electrical brain responses to quantitatively evaluate effectiveness and speed of cognitive brain functioning for the purpose of measuring at least one of the following:
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level of cognitive functioning, cognitive deficits;
efficacy of treatments for cognitive deficits;
mental deterioration due to disease processes;
mental deterioration due to trauma;
mental deterioration due to aging;
mental deterioration due to Alzheimer'"'"'s disease; and
efficacy of treatments for said mental deterioration;
comprising;assigning a cognitive task that has cognitive and non-cognitive aspects, wherein said cognitive task includes recognizing and responding to autobiographically relevant items or events experienced during at least one life experience of a subject as a means at least to invoke the subject'"'"'s episodic memory; and
a difficulty of said cognitive aspect depends on at least one factor affecting memorability of the items; and
wherein said cognitive aspect also involves classifying and differentially responding to the items according to a classification rule, and a difficulty of said cognitive task depends on at least one of the classification rule, the items to be classified, a number of the items to be classified, and a type of the items to be classified;measuring behavioral output of said cognitive task and a timing of said output; measuring and analyzing brain responses that provide an index of the effectiveness or speed of specific cognitive processes; and quantitatively evaluating the effectiveness and speed of cognitive brain functioning and deficits based on said brain responses and said analyzing. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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