Prefrontal cortex activation of return-to-work trainees in remission of mental disorders with depressive symptoms compared to that of healthy controls

Occupational Health and Neuroergonomics

“…A study evaluating the prefrontal cortex in return-to-work trainees in remission from depression, utilizing fNIRS, successfully differentiated those in a healthy state, surpassing the accuracy of a standard profile of mood questionnaire. 42 Additionally, the compatibility of workers and their workplace can be evaluated through fNIRS, informing better workplace design. A study incorporating fNIRS monitoring of the prefrontal activation during an imaging stress task in ergonomic and nonergonomic workstations revealed a positive correlation between activation in the ergonomic workstation and improved task performance.…”

Mental Condition Monitoring Based on Multimodality Biometry

“…The headset was connected through Bluetooth with a tablet PC that provided a task for activating brain function, acquired data, and displayed the results. The brain activity during a working memory (WM) task (namely, a delayed matching task; see Figure 2), was observed by OT for estimating mood states (10). Increases of oxygenated hemoglobin during spatial and verbal working memory tasks at the left and right sides of the forehead were measured.…”

“…The brain activity measured by optical topography during working memory tasks was affected by mood state (7)(8)(9). The optical topography measurement was applied to return-to-work trainees in remission of mental disorders with depressive symptoms (10). In this paper, we introduce a multimodality data acquisition system we developed to combine these devices for monitoring multilateral conditions of mental health.…”