Abstract
OPINION article Front. Aging Neurosci., 03 April 2018Sec. Neurocognitive Aging and Behavior Volume 10 - 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2018.00088
Highlights
The evaluation and rehabilitation (EAR) of patients with different cognitive impairment phases (PDCIP), including subjective cognitive decline (SCD) (Jessen et al, 2014; Innes et al, 2016a,b, 2017), mild cognitive impairment (MCI) (Weniger et al, 2011) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) (Serino et al, 2015), become a rapidly growing research field
For EAR of PDCIP, the advantages of using Virtual reality (VR) over conventional approaches, such as electroencephalogram (EEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging, and neuropsychological tasks, have been reported (Tarnanas et al, 2014a,b, 2015a). These studies did not record EEG during the course of evaluation and training within a VR environment, nor took full advantages of the EEG recordings to objectively explore the brain states of PDCIP in real time, despite the combination of VR and EEG has been used in the EAR of other diseases, including stroke (I Badia et al, 2013; Lechner et al, 2014; Vourvopoulos and I Badia, 2016), paraplegic (Donati et al, 2016), autism (Amaral et al, 2017), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (Rohani and Puthusserypady, 2015) and so on
This study reviewed the recent literature of the EAR of PDCIP based on VR
Summary
The evaluation and rehabilitation (EAR) of patients with different cognitive impairment phases (PDCIP), including subjective cognitive decline (SCD) (Jessen et al, 2014; Innes et al, 2016a,b, 2017), mild cognitive impairment (MCI) (Weniger et al, 2011) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) (Serino et al, 2015), become a rapidly growing research field. For EAR of PDCIP, the advantages of using VR over conventional approaches, such as electroencephalogram (EEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and neuropsychological tasks, have been reported (Tarnanas et al, 2014a,b, 2015a) These studies did not record EEG during the course of evaluation and training within a VR environment, nor took full advantages of the EEG recordings to objectively explore the brain states of PDCIP in (near) real time, despite the combination of VR and EEG has been used in the EAR of other diseases, including stroke (I Badia et al, 2013; Lechner et al, 2014; Vourvopoulos and I Badia, 2016), paraplegic (Donati et al, 2016), autism (Amaral et al, 2017), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (Rohani and Puthusserypady, 2015) and so on.
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