US 12,343,157 B2
Assessing motivated attention with cue reactivity
Scott Burwell, Minneapolis, MN (US)
Assigned to Neurotype Inc.
Filed by Neurotype Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed on Apr. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/229,861.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/010,040, filed on Apr. 14, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/010,042, filed on Apr. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0315508 A1, Oct. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 5/378 (2021.01); A61B 5/31 (2021.01); A61B 5/372 (2021.01); A61B 5/384 (2021.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/378 (2021.01) [A61B 5/31 (2021.01); A61B 5/372 (2021.01); A61B 5/384 (2021.01); A61B 5/0006 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0431 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a portable computing device having (a) a graphical user interface for displaying images, (b) a device transceiver, and (c) a computing device processor; and
a portable electroencephalographic (EEG) headset having (i) a plurality of electrodes configured to capture electrical neural signals of a user wearing the portable EEG headset, (ii) signal processing circuitry configured to create digital information from the captured electrical neural signals; (iii) a headset processor, and (iv) a headset transceiver configured to exchange information with the device transceiver;
wherein either or both of the computing device processor and the headset processor executes instructions to:
capture, during a first stage of treatment for substance abuse by the user, during which first stage the user is receiving a first type of therapy, baseline data by displaying a first sequence of images on the graphical user interface; receiving the digital information, simultaneously with and in a time-synchronized manner relative to the displayed first sequence of images; extracting from the digital information, baseline event-related potential (ERP) peaks associated with each image in the first sequence of images, wherein the baseline ERP peaks are time-synchronized to within 1500 ms of the presentation of each corresponding image in the first sequence of images; quantifying affect-related baseline measures associated with the baseline ERP peaks, each baseline affect-related measure comprising a pleasantness aspect and an intensity aspect;
capture, during a second stage of treatment for substance abuse by the user, comparison data by displaying a second sequence of images on the graphical user interface; receiving the digital information, simultaneously with and in a time-synchronized manner relative to the displayed second sequence of images; extracting from the digital information, comparison ERP peaks associated with each image in the second sequence of images, wherein the comparison ERP peaks are time-synchronized to within 1500 ms of the presentation of each corresponding image in the second sequence of images; quantifying affect-related comparison measures associated with the comparison ERP peaks, each comparison affect-related measure comprising the pleasantness aspect and the intensity aspect;
compare the quantified comparison affect-related measures to the baseline affect-related measures to determine risk to the user of relapse to substance abuse; and
based on the determined risk, provide to a clinician involved in treatment for substance abuse of the user, an indication that either the first type of therapy should be maintained or therapy should be transitioned from the first type of therapy to a second type of therapy that is different than the first type of therapy.