Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing

Biography

Biography: Ciro Visone

Abstract

Brain, Education, Strategies, and Technology (BEST) cognitive applications suite was designed with one goal: to minimize the effects of cognitive fatigue on individual executive functioning after physical and psychiatric injury. Cognitive fatigue can significantly impact decision making, time management, judgment, attention, memory, and concentration, while reducing information processing speed. For individuals overcoming the challenges of rehabilitation, fatigue can exacerbate recovery. BESTS’s integrated and innovative apps come together in the online BEST Suite, by collecting and integrating information across all aspects of executive functioning, while identifying and attenuating to developed strengths and challenges faced by the user. This allows users to continuously self-monitor their own behaviors, while creating personal self-awareness through cognitive feedback in an effort to gradually encourage continued improvement and personal autonomy. The integrated ReachMyGoals app implements the use of SMART goals, a concept of progressive behavior backed by nearly 40 years of research. By learning which strategies are most effective, users can maximize time spent in real life application of those strategies while steadily achieving goals. Once identified, the StartegizeMyLife app organizes the most effective and efficient strategies specific to the individual regarding daily tasks and other pre-identified goals. Notably, the PaceMyDay feature is an innovative component teaching users how cognitively taxing sensations such as pain, anxiety, and mood can influence behavior. Lastly, because BEST operates on a rehabilitative premise, users are able to share feedback provided by the apps with medical and treating professionals to create a truly biopsychosocial approach to cognitive rehabilitation