Project description Personal Health Systems (PHS)Millions of people live with the consequences of stroke, which often include cognitive impairments. A wide gap exists between on one hand clinical rehabilitation and on the other hand care, monitoring and support of patients at home to maximize independent, socially integrated living. CONTRAST bridges this gap by developing easy-to-use auto-adaptive human-machine interfaces (HCI) which can be used in the sub-acute rehabilitation phase and further at the patients’ home. Training modules for cognitive enhancement will be tailored to the individual patient and remote data processing and support systems will allow for continuous monitoring of health parameters to evaluate individual progress and for shared patient-expert decision. The project experts will develop, test, and upgrade brain-neural-computer interface (BNCI) based neurofeedback tools, based on findings that increasing power in specific EEG frequency bands can improve long-term cognitive performance. CONTRAST targets the cognitive function of interest directly in the brain. Thus, CONTRAST will contribute to new medical and practical knowledge for guiding and improving intervention for daily life functioning after stroke. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Millions of people live with the consequences of stroke, which often include cognitive impairments. A wide gap exists between clinical rehabilitation and care, monitoring and support of patients at home to maximize independent, socially integrated living. CONTRAST will bridge this gap by developing easy-to-use auto-adaptive human-machine interfaces (HCI) which can be used in the sub-acute rehabilitation phase and further at the patients' home. Training modules for cognitive enhancement will be tailored to the individual and remote data processing and support systems will allow for continuous monitoring of health parameters to evaluate individual progress and for shared patient-expert decision. We will develop, test, and upgrade our brain-neural-computer interface (BNCI) based neurofeedback tools, based on findings that increasing power in specific EEG frequency bands can improve long-term cognitive performance. CONTRAST targets the cognitive function of interest directly in the brain. Thus, CONTRAST will contribute to new medical and practical knowledge for guiding and improving intervention for daily life functioning after stroke. The aims of CONTRAST are the development of (1) a new architecture of HCI that is adaptive and integrates remote processing and shared decision making; (2) an accurate, individually tailored intervention for improvement of cognitive function guided by medical and neuropsychological assessment; (3) a HCI neurofeedback based cognitive enhancement training including automated reward systems to maintain patient motivation; (4) a continuous onsite and remote monitoring of health parameters and evaluation; (5) exploitation and dissemination. While these are ambitious aims, the combination of Universities, Companies, Hospitals, Rehabilitation Centres and User Groups within CONTRAST provides the experience, connections, and infrastructure necessary to have a real impact on disease management, medical knowledge, PHS, and stroke patients. Fields of science natural sciencesbiological sciencesneurobiologycognitive neurosciencemedical and health sciencesclinical medicinephysiotherapymedical and health sciencesbasic medicineneurologystrokenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata processing Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2011.5.1 - Personal Health Systems (PHS) Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2011-7 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAT WURZBURG Address Sanderring 2 97070 Wuerzburg Germany See on map Region Bayern Unterfranken Würzburg, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Andrea Kübler (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITAET GRAZ Austria EU contribution € 553 074,00 Address Universitatsplatz 3 8010 Graz See on map Region Südösterreich Steiermark Graz Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Guilherme Wood (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data HASOMED HARD-UND SOFTWARE FUER MEDIZIN GESELLSCHAFT MBH Germany EU contribution € 280 152,00 Address Paul ecke strasse 1 39114 Magdeburg See on map Region Sachsen-Anhalt Sachsen-Anhalt Magdeburg, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Hartmann Sabine (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data T-SYSTEMS ITC IBERIA SA Spain EU contribution € 232 220,00 Address Calle sancho de avila 110-130 08018 Barcelona See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Jorge Asensio Sanchéz (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA Italy EU contribution € 462 568,00 Address Via ardeatina 306 00179 Roma See on map Region Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Antonio Ierna (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG Luxembourg EU contribution € 472 654,00 Address 2 avenue de l'universite 4365 Esch-sur-alzette See on map Region Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Alfred Funk (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data MIND MEDIA BV Netherlands EU contribution € 533 794,00 Address Schepersweg 2b 6049 CV Roermond herten See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Pieter Ermers (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data