METHOD FOR ASSESSING FUNCTIONAL HEALTH OF INDIVIDUAL'S CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM BY MEASURING INDIVIDUAL'S ORIENTATING HAND-EYE RESPONSE TIME Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC A61B5/16 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medical diagnostics, namely to psychophysiology. A visual stimulus in the form of a red circle of 20 mm in diameter is presented on a monitor. The time from mark exposure to bringing a cursor to a circle border is recorded. The procedure is repeated at least 50 times. The measured hand-eye response time values are used to plot a block diagram of the 20-ms grade distribution of the derived values. Mode value M_O and mode amplitude A_Mo values are derived from analysis parameters of the block diagram and individual's response time distribution. That is followed by calculating CNS functional health (FH_CNS) by mathematical formula. If FH_CNS is more than 24.57, the functional health is considered as optimum; if FH_CNS is from 24.56 to 18.53, the functional health is low; FH_CNS less than 18.52 shows the substantially low level.

EFFECT: method enables providing the more reliable assessment that is ensured by the visual localisation of the object exposure and measurement of the time of targeted motor response to this object.

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