Assistive Technology Research Center
Abstract
The ATNRC is entering the second year of its second four-year funding cycle. Its missions remain the following: Assessment and enhancement of cognitive and motor function; evaluation and support for Activities of Daily Living; applications of telehealth and Virtual Reality; and product design. Accomplishments from year one of the new cycle included the development of a turnkey Virtual Reality testbed that incorporates gaze monitoring. Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics (ANAM) was implemented in brain concussion studies of the 82nd Airborne at Ft. Bragg and the US Military Academy at West Point. These studies encompassed over 6,000 baseline assessments and demonstrated ANAM's capability as a population surveillance instrument for military and civilian health applications. Informatics software was developed for manipulating unprecedented quantities of ANAM information, and sharing that software with military and civilian ANAM users. These users' groups included NASA, several Veterans Administration hospitals, and such academic institutions as Georgetown, Northwestern, University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins, and the University of North Carolina. Four peer-reviewed papers on diverse ANAM issues saw publication in year one. These works dealt with the psychopharmacology of migraine, the natural history of recovery from concussion, and the psychometric factor structure of ANAM subtests in relation to traditional clinical neuropsychological tests.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2001
- Accession Number
- ADA389326
Entities
People
- John Toerge
- Joseph Bleiberg
- Michael J Rose
Organizations
- National Rehabilitation Hospital