Applications and Methods of Brain-Computer Interface Technology in Health and Wellness
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensing and Imaging".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2023) | Viewed by 1711
Special Issue Editors
Interests: human-computer interaction; functional near-infrared spectroscopy; physiological computing
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Special Issue Information
With recent advancements in biotechnology, we are seeing a wave of brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies that are capable of non-invasively measuring a range of health and wellness phenomena in humans, and using that information to help support the individual to improve overall health. With these emerging BCI sensor technologies, not only can we measure and investigate the neural mechanisms underlying important health and wellness phenomena (e.g., stress, chronic pain, addiction, traumatic brain injury) in the brain, but we can develop techniques to promote wellness across a broad range of applications. The BCI field has made rapid advancements in recent years, with sensing technologies such as functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), all contributing to sensing and measurement of the human brain. For example: BCIs have been used to develop biofeedback systems that help people with chronic pain learn to self-regulate and divert attention away from the pain. Similar bio-feedback BCIs have been succesful in topics such as druEXPAND with a few lines that connect to our own work and interests. As another example, BCIs have recently been used to study the benefits of practicing mindfulness in the brain, whereby positive impacts are measured non-invasively to improve emotion regulation and attentional processing through mindfulness based-stress reduction (MBSR). This special issue is focused on empirical studies, methods, and applications of BCI technologies to benefit general health and wellness.
Dr. Leanne Hirshfield
Dr. Marta Ceko
Dr. Jaclyn Stephens
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR)
- functional near-infrared spectroscopy
- functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
- Brain-computer interfaces
- chronic pain management
- traumatic brain injury
- occupational therapy
- concussion
