Dr. Ryan D’Arcy, a neuroscientist in Surrey, British Columbia, has developed a new brainwave monitoring method called ‘Brain Vital Signs’ (BVS). D’Arcy told The North Delta Reporter that his software is, “the first objective yardstick for brain function.”
To develop BVS D’Arcy and his team worked with the U.S.’ Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Centre, Health and Technology District, and Simon Fraser University. Together those groups studied Junior A male hockey players over an entire season of play.
To study players, scientists used a portable electroencephalography (EEG) cap to read their brain activity before and after games and analyzed the data with the BVS software.