A wearable brain scanner to advance clinical care [BRAINCARE]

In BRAINCARE, novel wearable sensor technology will be developed to enable noninvasive functional brain scanning with unprecedented sensitivity and spatial accuracy. As an exemplar application, the system we develop will be used to advance clinical care for patients with suspected epilepsy. We will demonstrate that epileptiform activity can be detected with greater sensitivity than with incumbent technology (EEG), enabling an early diagnosis after a first suspected seizure. This avoids the repeated EEG recordings that are otherwise often needed, enables earlier start of effective treatment, prevents treatment being wrongly denied, and most importantly will improve patient outcomes and quality of life.