A healthy brain keeps its systems tightly coupled: vestibular and ocular motor, postural, cognitive, and motor-timing move together. Injury pulls them apart. Concussion, TBI, and the chronic course of CTE show up as dispersion, signals drifting from one another and from the person's own baseline.
Our Dispersion-Based Cognitive Intra-Individual Variability framework turns that dispersion into one continuous, calibrated, longitudinally-comparable index. The score sits low when the systems stay coherent and rises as they drift, so lower is better, and recovery reads as a return toward baseline.
Manipulation-resistant by constructionThe platform pairs voluntary task performance (the cognitive screens, held stances, and reaction test) with involuntary biomarker channels (saccadic latency and velocity, smooth-pursuit and vestibulo-ocular reflex gain, gaze stability, postural micro-corrections). A person trying to under-perform a baseline degrades the voluntary channels while the involuntary ones stay physiologically anchored, and that divergence is itself a flagged signal. It is the architectural answer to the sandbagging and concealment that defeat self-report screens.