Patent Proposal for Brain-Profiling Synchronization of Phenomenology and Brain-Imaging in psychiatry

The Neuro-Hat device is proposed to integrate theory and technology to help discover the causes of mental disorders and provide for future therapeutic brain-pacing technology. “Neuro” signifies NeuroAnalysis Clinical Brain Profiling, and the “Hat” refers to a head-mounted sensors platform that captures psychiatric phenomenology (i.e., mental status examination) and EEG brain activity. Thus the Neuro-Hat integrates clinical phenomenology and brain imaging using NeuroAnalysis conceptualizations and aspires to provide for therapeutic pace-making interventions. Current neuroscientific knowledge allows for preliminary formulation of brain-related diagnoses for mental disorders. When translating clinical phenomenology to brain disturbances we assign the diagnosis of schizophrenia and psychosis to connectivity perturbations of the brain. We assign mood and anxiety disorders to disturbances of brain plasticity resulting in disturbed optimization dynamics. Finally we assign the phenomenology of personality disorders to immature, biased unstable resting state networks. In recent years deployed sensor technology has seen substantial development; video cameras, vocal recordings, motion sensors and dry EEG electrodes have been miniaturized and have become costeffective to the extent that they can easily be deployed on portable wearable devices. Sensors technology can be converged onto a head-mounted hat device; the “Neuro-Hat.” It is the first conceived platform that combines real-time online estimation of psychiatric phenomenology coupled with simultaneous synchronized EEG brain imaging. Various signal processing methods for a sensing Neuro-Hat device are described and its utility for construction of a future brain pacing therapeutic technology is presented. Peled Abraham 13.1.15 © All rights reserved