MindPulse: a new tool to measure decision-making and vigilance

🎉 MindPulse is getting International ! 🌍

We’re excited to announce that our MindPulse Mini-Games* are now available in English 🎮 This update marks an important milestone as our community continues to grow worldwide.

👉 Now’s the perfect time to try out these games, designed to spark your cognitive curiosity and evaluate your speed! 

Try them today and see how you can boost your performance, wherever you are!

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*Let's also thank theS[cube] -partageonslessciences.com association and the Decision Making/Neuropsi team fromParis-Saclay University/ CNRS for their collaboration in the creation of these mini-games!

Discover our Seven Exclusive Clinical Cases now available on our website! Crafted by our partner clinicians, these case studies provide a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of MindPulse and its applications. Immerse yourself in real-life scenarios involving patients with long COVID, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Attention Deficit Disorders with or without Hyperactivity, as well as Transient Ischemic Attacks, associated or not with high-level functioning profiles.

Our latest clinical case, hot off our clinical experiences, highlights the journey of Mrs. D, a 56-year-old facing long COVID since 2020. Despite returning to part-time work, her concerns persist. Explore the natural progression of this condition through the case of this high-functioning patient by analyzing her neuropsychological performance profiles with a year and a half of hindsight.

Join us for an in-depth exploration of these fascinating clinical stories and enhance your understanding of MindPulse!

A cognitive test measuring attention and executive functions using Artificial Intelligence and measures of decision diffusion within neural networks!

Preliminary results are remarkable, showing correlation with clinical outcomes in depressed patients.

What are the latest advancements from MindPulse?

The profiles generated by the AI take into account subjects’ speed, accuracy, variability, and changes in performance over the course of the test,including behavioral modifications after an error. Cognitive measurements become “dynamic” rather than static snapshots, bringing them much closer to real-world functioning.

Major Unipolar Depression: Initial Findings (By the team of Prof. EL HAGE)

A recent study, conducted in collaboration with MindPulse on Major Unipolar Depression, implemented MindPulse’s AI Research solutions to test the model on actual patients. The AI-derived profiles from patients with major unipolar depression reveal that only 38% of subjects with major unipolar depression align with the decision-making strategies used by control subjects.
his disparity in decision evolution profiles among depressed subjects is associated with clinical symptomatology.

This result marks the first direct link between a cognitive test and clinical symptomatology, offering promising avenues for the advancement of neuropsychological assessment.

The research conducted by the psychiatry research team at the CHRU de Tours, presented at the JNPN (Journées Neurosciences Psychiatrie Neurologie) conference by Ms. Camille Raysséguier (a student under the supervision of Prof. El Hage and Mr. Alexis Vancappel, Neuropsychologist), received the award for the best scientific poster.

Conclusion:

MindPulse continues its technological development and implements cutting-edge AI and mathematical solutions through research endeavors. The introduction of these new tools allows for a more dynamic observation of subject adaptation during a task and the extraction of adaptation characteristics with varying degrees of intensity and difficulty over time. These advancements yield unprecedented clinical insights: MindPulse demonstrates that slowing down occurs in both perceptual-motor association and executive functions within a population with major unipolar depression.

MindPulse’s AI has shown that decision evolution profiles are affected in patients with major unipolar depression, confirming, for the first time, the correlation of MindPulse with both the tools commonly used in neuropsychology and clinical symptomatology. MindPulse thus provides reliability association and sensitivity.

With these advancements, MindPulse transitions from static to dynamic models and aims to identify reliable cognitive and pathological biomarkers for more targeted treatments.

Also, refer to Mr. Bressot’s article:

Measuring the higher abilities of astronauts in space: decision-making, attention, executive functions, response to difficulty...

MindPulse invites you to discover the games made for Brain Week! (from March 13 to 19, 2023)

Learn different aspects of your brain in a fun way. These games are free, suitable for the little ones (from 6 years old) and the big ones. They are open to the general public since they were made on a principle of popular science in order to be accessible to all.

The games were designed by MindPulse, in collaboration with the S[cube] association and the Decision Making/Neuropsi team from the University of Paris Saclay/CNRS.

After two years of opening the test offered for French research, the free test program ended in December 2022. This has allowed fifteen teams to benefit from thousands of reports, and research advances from MindPulse.

You still have the option of using MindPulse in your research projects, and to have support services with data from our advances in Artificial Intelligence and the Decision Diffusion Model (DDM), by contacting us via our contact form or by directly contacting our research director Dr Suarez. Your specific requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Why include remote administration in the choice of taking the test?

The last few years, have shown ont démontré how important teleconsultation can be for patient follow-up, either when it is difficult for them to travel, due to a pandemic or for any other reason. Another major advantage of teleconsultation is the possibility of evaluating a patient in his familiar environment, in a more ecological way (for example a teenager when he has to do his homework).. But until now, the possibility of performing cognitive assessments during a teleconsultation has been very limited.

With MindPulse online, you can take the test remotely in a very simple way.

Here is a tutorial video to better understand the process of the remote transfer.

*We remind you that for a distance test, MindPulse recommends taking the test under the supervision of a clinician, i.e. in teleconsultation, by putting you in videoconference with your patient by means of his telephone (avoid using the computer on which the patient takes his test) . Indeed, it is important to ensure that the environmental conditions of the handover are adequate.