REAL-TIME TESTING FOR BRAIN HEALTH

Our brain health testing assesses mental function on a real-time basis and objectively looks at the quality (speed) and voltage (power) of our brain, reaction time, attention, visual screening ability and speed of processing.

What Does WAVi Do?

WAVi is a multifaceted brain performance assessment tool. WAVi makes it possible for those who are proactively improving brain health to measure the effectiveness of their efforts.

Quantitative Electroencephalograph is a non-invasive less than 1 hour assessment which records multi-channel EEG event-related potentials and a comprehensive multi-dimensional analysis of such recordings by advanced algorithms, aimed at understanding and visualizing the network complexity of brain function. Assesses the similarity to normal function can display an understanding of dysfunction, disease progression and response to therapeutic interventions in a large variety of neurologic, psychiatric and behavioral conditions.

These brain network patterns and scores can aid clinicians with profiling of brain functionality in comparison to the reference brain network model to assess similarity to the normal average brain functioning. Traditional imaging modalities such as CT, MRI, PET and SPECT scans are providing us with information on brain anatomy, metabolism, energy consumption and blood flow but not on the functional brain components such as memory, attention, pain or depression. Other functional assessment methods – including clinical assessment and neurocognitive tools – do not allow us to quantify how these underlying networks are performing, revealing only clinical effects and symptoms.

Other functional assessment methods – including clinical assessment and neurocognitive tools – do not allow us to quantify how these underlying networks are performing, revealing only clinical effects and symptoms. QEEG testing allows medical professionals to objectively measure and assess how these networks are related to specific functions and compared to a normative group, both before injury or illness, during a disease progression and after treatment has begun (Brain Network Activation, 2017).

Neuro-Cognitive Testing

These tests help your doctors look at your attention span and how well you concentrate on things. Other areas covered by
neuropsychological testing include:

• Your ability to think, understand, learn, and remember (cognition)
• Memory
• Motor function (walking, coordination, etc.)
• Perception (how well you take in what you see or read)
• Problem-solving and decision-making
• Verbal ability

• Cognition test: Explain how two items are like. For instance, if you see a picture of a dog and a cat, you might answer that they’re both animals or that they are both pets.
• Verbal communication test: Name some items as the person giving the test points at them. You might also be given a letter of the alphabet and told to list words that start with that letter.
• Motor tests: These might include tasks such as inserting pegs into a pegboard using one hand and then the other.
• You might also be given tests to see how your hearing and vision affect your thinking and memory. You usually take a neurological test when you have a noticeable change in your thinking or memory. They help doctors figure out whether your problems are caused by any of the following:
• Disease, such as Alzheimer’s
• Brain injury
• Emotional disorders, such as depression or anxiety
• Normal brain changes related to getting older

Preparing for the Tests

No matter what type of neurological test you take, you won’t need to study for it. There are a few things you should do before the test, however:

• Get a good night’s sleep, since being tired affects how you think.
• Eat a good breakfast.
• Don’t drink anything with alcohol in it the night before the test.
• Ask your doctor about whether you can take any medications, including sleep medicine, the night before.
• Tell the psychologist about any previous psychological tests you’ve taken.
• Relax and don’t worry about the results.

A technician who works with the neuropsychologist will typically give you the tests. This person is usually a “psychometrist,” a person who is trained to give and score these tests. Or the person may be a student working on a doctoral degree in psychology.

The testing may take 3 to 6 hours. It depends on how at ease you are and how quickly you and the technician can go through all the questions. You’ll get breaks during the session. In some cases, you might need to make more than one visit.

EVov

Backed by research. Designed for physicians

The EVov Brain Health System takes qEEG technology that has been used for decades in a laboratory setting and brings it into the physician’s office. With easy data collection right in your practice, EVov delivers well-established, reliable, and stable brain health biomarkers that can aid in diagnosis of cognitive disorders. We didn’t create the science, we perfected it for clinical use.

The Science Behind EVov

A comprehensive workup on patient brain health is at your fingertips.

Head Maps:

Computational EEG head maps are a visual representation of the difference in activity between a patient’s brain and a standardized database. EVov physicians complete onboarding training and have free access to ongoing clinical education so they can learn to recognize various head map patterns to facilitate diagnosis.

Brain Biomarkers:

Objective metrics derived from computational EEG data provide insight into how the brain is functioning. Peak Alpha Frequency (PAF) reflects cognitive capacity and physiological aging. Theta/Beta Ratio reflects inattention and is FDA cleared to aid in the diagnosis of ADHD.