Combat apathy in traumatic brain injury patients (Old ID 27911)

Bionics Queensland Ltd
Role

Chief Investigator

Description

Clinicians often mention apathy as the cause for decreased treatment progression for Traumatic Brain Injury patients. TBI patients with apathy symptoms are less motivated to engage continuously in their therapy schedule. Constant monitoring of patient engagement can help clinicians better measure patient progress and personalise the treatment accordingly. However, current clinical measurements of apathy cannot provide clinicians with continuous feedback. This project offers a novel continuous comprehensive measure of apathy feedback to assist clinicians with assessing and improving patient recovery. This apathy measure will combine traditional clinical measures of apathy with neurophysiological data collected from a virtual reality exoskeleton device.

Date

01 Feb 2023 - 31 Dec 2025

Project Type

GRANT

Keywords

Apathy;Virtual Reality;Exoskeleton;Traumatic Brain Injury

Funding Body

Bionics Queensland Ltd

Amount

25000

Project Team

Sara Brice;Jonathan Connor;Shou-Han Zhou;Kenji Doma;Liza van Eijk