Plastic Health: Analyzing Neuroplasticity to Monitor Emotional Stress and Prevent Burnout

Over the past decade, neuroscientists have made revolutionary discoveries that show at all ages the human brain is plastic or malleable, i.e., it is continuously shaped and reshaped based on what a person does and thinks. This characteristic of the brain and entire nervous system—otherwise known as neuroplasticity—plays a determining role in attentional control, cognitive inhibition and flexibility, and working memory. However, it has been observed that, through social and emotional development in childhood, due to emotional fatigue from academic pressure, in corporate setups, or in connection with social, mental, physiological dimensions of chronic illness, neuroplasticity can be negatively affected by a wide range of factors. The result? Emotional stress, anxiety disorder, job burnout, and complex monitoring of medical conditions. Notably, in today’s fast-paced world, the prevalence of job burnout is increasing, causing companies to spend more and more on their employees’ wellbeing, while social-emotional learning programs (SEL) are implemented to empower students, and new, digital, ways to track health and wellbeing are brought into mainstream. The question therefore arises: Is there a fail-proof way to help students, team members, patients check their emotional health on a regular basis?

Plastic Health—a blockchain startup co-founded by Celine Vignal—has developed a fitting answer to this by offering a complete digital solution called Plastic Health. Plastic Health is enabling preventive monitoring of neuroplasticity that can help anyone benchmark their perceived emotions and actual “plastic” effect, reveal multiple health risks, such as immune system degradation, ineffective therapy, and more at an individual level. Plastic Health focuses on the analysis of activity on the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) to measure digital biomarkers, identify patterns, and guide and implement secondary and tertiary preventive solutions before the condition becomes worse.

To this extent, based on the latest research in health and neuroscience Plastic Healthhas developed the world’s first biosensor game controller called “the Egg.” Working with dedicated mobile games, the Egg measures digital biomarkers of the ANS in real-time, and in a baselined way. Employees and employers can then exchange meaningful, tangible, objective data on the Plastic blockchain platform. This approach not only helps in monitoring and improving the physiological and mental wellbeing and cognitive performance of employees but also assists employers in reducing their healthcare costs.