A Virtual Reality Eye Goggle on Brain Health—Scott Anderson—SyncThink
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Chief Clinical Officer of SyncThink, Scott Anderson, discusses a novel technology capable of identifying eye movements that indicate the presence of certain neurological conditions.
In this episode, you'll discover:
- How common neurological conditions are diagnosed (it might not be how you think)
- What types of eye movements are associated with neurological impairments
- What the future of eye tracking looks like
Most neurological conditions lack objective diagnostic tools, which means diagnoses are made only by the exclusion of others, and heavily reliant upon the patient's reported experiences or answers on standardized questionnaires. This includes developmental conditions often labeled as learning disabilities in children, and degenerative conditions in late life, such as dementia. Until now, there has been no method for functionally measuring the brain to determine what is actually going on with patients who present with certain signs or symptoms.
For the past 15 years, Stanford neurosurgeon Dr. Ghajar has been capturing, studying, identifying, and classifying eye movements and correlating them with various neurological conditions in partnership with the US Department of Defense.
With the help of today's guest, Scott Anderson, the data gathered from this extensive research has been commercialized, and is now available as an unprecedented tool for objectively measuring evidence of neurological impairments and conditions.
The technology utilizes FDA-approved, high-fidelity, research-grade eye tracking infrared cameras and emitters built into virtual reality goggles, and conducts a series of 60-second assessments to capture eye movements.
Anderson explains the specifics of the treatments and exercises used in this field, how to improve the standard and quality care for concussions, the future of eye tracking, and more.
Tune in and visit https://syncthink.com/.
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| 0:41.0 | I have Scott Anderson, he's the CCO, the Chief Clinical Officer of C-T-N-C-T-T-T-T think. We're going to talk to about eye-tracking and what he can do. So Scott, thanks for coming. How you doing? |
| 0:53.7 | Thanks for having me, Richard. I appreciate it. |
| 0:55.4 | Yeah, if you would tell me a little bit about your background and then about your |
| 1:00.0 | current work at Cinkthink. Sure, yeah, so I come from the clinical world, a trained expert in sports |
| 1:06.0 | medicine and injury prevention care. I most recently, prior to joining the team at Cink-think Think was in charge of the sports medicine program at Stanford University where we provided a large multidisciplinary health care service organization to a large at-risk athletic population. |
| 1:27.0 | So I was in charge of the staff there and also had my own clinical responsibilities there too as well. |
| 1:34.6 | You can imagine being on a campus like Stanford, |
| 1:36.5 | there's a lot of activity, |
| 1:37.9 | and certainly a lot of multidisciplinary research |
| 1:40.6 | happening on the campus, |
| 1:41.6 | and I was involved in a number of activities. |
| 1:44.5 | One of which led me to the founder of Singh Think which is Dr. Jam Gajar who is a neurosurgeon |
| 1:51.9 | at Stanford part of the clinical faculty there and the founder of Sink Think. |
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