A Review of the Application of Virtual Reality Technology in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cognitive Impairment

Yao Liu; Wenjun Tan; Chao Chen; Chunyan Liu; Jinzhu Yang; Yanchun Zhang

doi:10.3389/fnagi.2019.00280

A Review of the Application of Virtual Reality Technology in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cognitive Impairment

Front Aging Neurosci. 2019 Oct 18:11:280. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2019.00280. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Yao Liu¹, Wenjun Tan^{1

2}, Chao Chen³, Chunyan Liu⁴, Jinzhu Yang¹, Yanchun Zhang^{2

5}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing in Medical Image, Ministry of Education, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.
² Cyberspace Institute of Advanced Technology, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China.
³ Key Laboratory of Complex System Control Theory and Application, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, China.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
⁵ Centre for Applied Informatics, College of Engineering and Science, Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Abstract

At present, with the development of an aging society and an increase in the number of elderly people, in order to ensure the ability and enthusiasm of the elderly to live independently, it is necessary to ensure that they can understand the world in a normal way. More and more elderly people have cognitive impairment, and virtual reality (VR) technology is more effective in cognitive diagnosis and treatment than traditional methods. This review article describes some studies on cognitive diagnosis and training for the elderly, and puts forward some suggestions for current studies, in the hopes that VR technology can be better applied to cognitive diagnosis and training.

Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease; cognitive impairment; cognitive rehabilitation; cognitive training; virtual reality.

Publication types

Review