Patent ID: 8740794

Claim:
A method for diagnosing, assessing, or detecting brain injury and/or a neurological disorder of a subject, comprising: presenting objects to the subject within the subject's workspace such that the subject can choose to interact with the presented objects using either the right or left limb, or portion thereof, of a pair of limbs; using data acquisition apparatus to obtain position data and/or motion data and/or kinetic data of the left and right limbs or portions thereof with respect to a presented object; constructing a data set from the obtained data for a plurality of presented objects; and analyzing the data set and outputting a result that provides information about condition of the brain and/or neurological status in the subject; wherein analyzing comprises determining from the position data and/or motion data and/or kinetic data whether the left limb or right limb was used with respect to a presented object, and repeating the determining for a plurality of presented objects to produce the acquired data set; wherein presenting objects includes presenting objects to the subject within the subject's workspace such that two or more objects are in the subject's workspace simultaneously; or wherein a next object is presented to the subject before the subject can move the right or left limb, or portion thereof, to a selected position after interacting with a previous object.