Brain Assistive Tool to Predict Emotional Regulation Failures in Older Adults

The way we regulate our emotions has important implications for our well-being and our social relationships.
Emotional regulation involves monitoring and controlling the intensity of one’s affective response to an external event and/or internal thought process. The impairment of emotional regulation then affects the person’s wellbeing; it also impairs the ability of the family members and/or medical team to help the person. The challenge, therefore, is to find a way to detect when emotional-regulation impairments will occur prior to an emotional outburst. Our project goal is building a portable device for daily use by older adults to detect early signs of emotional regulation issues. From this project, the partner organization will benefit by having a portable brain assistive tool that will assess status, progression and improvement of emotional regulation in older adults. This will improve the management of a person with emotional regulation issues by the medical team and/or family members.

Faculty Supervisor:

Sergio Camorlinga;Stephen Smith;Amy Desroches

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Partner:

Misericordia Health Centre

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Winnipeg

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