The U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) Warfighter Brain Health Initiative aims to identify changes in cognitive performance to provide an opportunity for interventions to restore deficits and enhance cognition or “thinking skills.”
DOD’s Cognitive Monitoring Program is charged with evaluating service members’ cognition — how they acquire and process information — and monitoring how it changes throughout their careers. The program uses a computer-based assessment tool that evaluates 10 cognitive domains related to memory, attention, focus, and judgment. The evaluation also includes a questionnaire about mood, sleep, post-traumatic stress disorder, and traumatic brain injury symptoms.