A system for assessing a cerebral disruptive incident comprising:
- a computerized interactive system for obtaining a baseline cognitive performance profile comprising:
- at least one cognitive human-machine interface for providing a selected one of a plurality of symbols in a central field of view of a patient, and for providing one or more peripheral visual stimuli located in a peripheral vision region of the patient, comprising a processing unit executing machine logic instructions providing said one or more peripheral visual stimuli during an exercise a period of time after said providing a selected one of a plurality of symbols;
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- a controller configured to:
- instruct said at least one cognitive human-interface to present to said patient, at a given time, a selected one of said plurality of symbols, wherein a sensory semantic language is stored in memory of said controller that relates each action of a plurality of actions, wherein for each action of said plurality of actions the patient is required to do something, to one or more symbols of said plurality of symbols, and wherein each symbol of said plurality of symbols has a meaning that is unknown to the patient prior to establishing said sensory semantic language with said patient;
- calculate the time from said provision of said one or more peripheral visual stimuli to said provision of a response by the patient to said selected one of said plurality of symbols as an action performed by the patient, said controller including a central processing unit executing machine logic instructions determining whether the patient correctly responds to said selected symbol, wherein said sensory semantic language is processed by said controller for said determining to verify if said provision of said response is accurate as a function of said sensory semantic language and said selected one of said visually-presented symbols;
- a baseline profile storage unit configured to store said baseline cognitive performance profile;
- a comparing unit configured to compare said baseline cognitive performance profile obtained at a point in time prior to said disruptive incident with a secondary cognitive performance profile obtained at a point in time following the disruptive incident to determine a measure of cognitive impairment due to said disruptive incident.