Military
Neurostat for Military
Vista has launched military products that monitor cognitive status on the training field, while deployed, and during post-injury monitoring to help ensure safety, readiness, and cognitive health. Injury, illness, conditioning, and exposure to operational stressors can significantly disrupt cognitive function. These impairments may adversely affect performance and safety, especially in high-pressure environments commonly encountered by military and security personnel. Neurostat, a tablet- or PC-based automated cognitive assessment platform (browser version coming soon), is designed to quantify the nuanced cognitive effects of such stressors.
Why Neurostat?
With over four million administrations among U.S. military personnel, our tests have repeatedly demonstrated the capability to detect cognitive changes associated with operational exposures or military-relevant risk factors. It serves as a critical tool for supporting informed personnel decisions and safeguarding individual health and mission readiness.
Neurostat provides leaders with a tool that empowers them to:
- Monitor and manage the cognitive health of their service members anytime and anywhere
- Evaluate performance following injury or exposure in comparison to baseline performance or a large normative database of over one million military personnel.
- Monitor recovery processes.
Our Observe software also has extensive applications beyond cognitive health, offering clinical care pathways for conditions ranging from malaria and COVID-19 to general medicine and emergency care.
Our tests have been used to examine the cognitive impacts of:
Sleep Deprivation
Nitrogen Narcosis
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI), or Concussion
Hypoxia
Toxic Exposures
Explosive Use in Breaching Training
High Physical Stress and Fatigue
Performance Effects of Various Supplements
Training or Medical Interventions
Deploy Anywhere
Neurostat technology has been deployed in a variety of harsh environments commonly encountered by military personnel – ranging from undersea to outer space. Our latest product will enable cognitive monitoring over the internet on a variety of touch screen platforms including iPhones, Android phones, tablets and touch screen laptops. Our second product was specifically built for mobile deployment with input from U.S. Special Forces for secure deployments where connectivity is not certain and security protocols demand little web traffic. It is optimized for use in locations without ready internet connectivity. Vista has also partnered with the U.S. Navy to create a version of Neurostat that is fully functional underwater.
Land
Sea
Air
Product Features
The U.S. Military uses a customized testing battery that includes questionnaires assessing mood, general and brain injury symptoms, post-traumatic stress symptoms, and sleepiness. It also includes a selection of tests from ourlibrary measuring fundamental neurocognitive functions including response speed, attention/concentration, immediate and delayed memory, spatial processing, and decision processing speed and efficiency.
Our Products Are:
Proven
- Neurostat technology has a well-established track record of effective deployment in military environments, with over four million cognitive assessments conducted to date.
- Vista tests have a highly diverse history of use in research studies (over 450) for a variety of military-relevant risk factors.
- Our tests have been referred to as the “gold standard” for cognitive testing.
Secure
- Options for data communication include secure transmission over networks, cloud-based data aggregation, or direct/wire-only data sharing/data extract capabilities for the most secure situations.
- All testing is conducted locally on the device, with the option for secure data transmission when protocol permits.
- All data on Neurostat tablets have AES 128 or AES 256-bit encryption.
Flexible
- Neurostat is available on both standard (i.e., desktop/laptop) and mobile (i.e., tablet) computing platforms, with a browser version coming soon.
- Administration capabilities include stand-alone, down-range (unconnected), and in small and large group environments, allowing users to deploy our technology anywhere.
- Standard military batteries include “short” and longer, extended batteries to be used at recruitment and semi-annual screening examinations.
- Tests can be taken “down range” without internet connectivity and compare to previously imported or collected baselines.
- Data storage can be customized to meet specific needs (local storage or cloud-based databases (hosted by the customer or Vista.)
Simple
- Reporting begins with a customized summary report providing a narrative summary of performance.
- Detailed reporting that includes comparisons to norms and the most recent baseline, as well as specific results for each cognitive test.
- Tests are language-neutral and deployed with instructions that have been translated to the languages of expected test takers.
- VLS has contributed to the development of numerous normative databases, including the most extensive cognitive dataset to date—comprising data from over one million U.S. military service members, stratified by gender, age, and educational level.
Comprehensive
- Neurostat includes a library of over 30 cognitive tests and behavioral health questionnaires as well as access to an extensive suite of data reporting and review tools that allow for a thorough and holistic examination of cognitive health.
- Neurostat is designed specifically for repeated use, and has demonstrated reliability.
- We also provide clinical care pathways covering a range of conditions and interventions. Additional pathways can be developed by Vista as needed.
History
The U.S. military has used our technology for pre-deployment baselines and post-injury return-to-duty since 2008, with over 4 million assessments conducted on ANAM, our previous testing platform. Vista LifeSciences collaborated with U.S. Special Forces in the development of a mobile version of our technology, to ensure field-readiness of the technology.
Research
Our tests have been called the “gold standard” for cognitive testing in research looking at cognitive change. The combination of flexibility and sensitivity provided by our products have made them the leading product in military concussion research and cognitive monitoring.