Unsupervised serious video games on the SmartMe You home telemonitoring platform may enable the assessment of cognitive fluctuations in older individuals, with or without cognitive deficits. Here, we tested their validity in cognitively unimpaired older adults (Healthy) and patients with mild cognitive impairment and mild to moderate dementia due to Parkinson’s disease (PDCD). Such validity was assessed using Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores and resting-state eyes-closed electroencephalography (rsEEG) activity. Clinical, demographic, and rsEEG datasets were collected from 34 healthy and 68 PDCD participants. The SmartMe You video games included 7 unsupervised cognitive tasks implemented on a commercial tablet. The rsEEG source activities in the individual delta, theta, and alpha frequency bands were estimated using the eLORETA freeware. As novel findings, we showed that game performance: (1) discriminated between healthy participants and PDCD patients, with overall accuracy exceeding 90
This document provides a brief overview of fibre-sensing technologies and the possibilities offered by these techniques in both the structural monitoring of National Research and Education Network (NREN) infrastructure and in Earth observation and monitoring. Studying these new technologies by identifying potential NREN use cases, along with wider applications in the national and GÉANT pan-European infrastructures, offers a useful source of data to NRENs, and to the multiple and heterogeneous research communities connected by NRENs whose research stands to benefit. This document is aimed at NRENs but is comprehensible enough that other audiences, such as research communities and industries, will find it useful.
