Digital biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: the mobile/wearable devices opportunity

LC Kourtis, OB Regele, JM Wright, GB Jones - NPJ digital medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) represents a major and rapidly growing burden to the healthcare
ecosystem. A growing body of evidence indicates that cognitive, behavioral, sensory, and …

Contact lens sensors in ocular diagnostics

NM Farandos, AK Yetisen, MJ Monteiro… - Advanced …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Contact lenses as a minimally invasive platform for diagnostics and drug delivery have
emerged in recent years. Contact lens sensors have been developed for analyzing the …

Spontaneous eye blink rate as predictor of dopamine-related cognitive function—A review

BJ Jongkees, LS Colzato - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
An extensive body of research suggests the spontaneous eye blink rate (EBR) is a non-
invasive indirect marker of central dopamine (DA) function, with higher EBR predicting …

[HTML][HTML] Look into my eyes: What can eye-based measures tell us about the relationship between physical activity and cognitive performance?

L Zou, F Herold, S Ludyga, K Kamijo… - Journal of Sport and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background There is a growing interest to understand the neurobiological mechanisms that
drive the positive associations of physical activity and fitness with measures of cognitive …

Spontaneous eye blink rate: An index of dopaminergic component of sustained attention and fatigue

A Maffei, A Angrilli - International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2018 - Elsevier
Blink rate is a behavioral index highly correlated with frontostriatal dopaminergic activity.
The present research was aimed at studying the modulation of spontaneous blink rate in …

mEBAL: A multimodal database for eye blink detection and attention level estimation

R Daza, A Morales, J Fierrez, R Tolosana - Companion publication of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
This work presents mEBAL, a multimodal database for eye blink detection and attention
level estimation. The eye blink frequency is related to the cognitive activity and automatic …

Blink: characteristics, controls, and relation to dry eyes

JD Rodriguez, KJ Lane, GW Ousler III… - Current eye …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Blink is a complex phenomenon that is profoundly affected by diverse endogenous and
exogenous stimuli. It has been studied in the context of cognition, emotional, and …

Dementia clinical trial implications of mild behavioral impairment

ME Mortby, SE Black, S Gauthier, D Miller… - International …, 2018 - cambridge.org
The World Alzheimer Report 2016 estimated that 47 million people are living with dementia
worldwide (Alzheimer's Disease International, 2016). In the inaugural World Health …

Dopamine and executive function: Increased spontaneous eye blink rates correlate with better set-shifting and inhibition, but poorer updating

T Zhang, D Mou, C Wang, F Tan, Y Jiang… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
The central dopamine system (DA) has a significant role in the executive function (EF). The
spontaneous eye blink rate (EBR) is an effective clinical and non-invasive measure, which is …

Affective computing for late-life mood and cognitive disorders

E Smith, EA Storch, I Vahia, STC Wong… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Affective computing (also referred to as artificial emotion intelligence or emotion AI) is the
study and development of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and …