Pilot results from a virtual reality executive function task

Impairments in executive functions (EF) negatively impact the capacity for independent living, damaging personal autonomy, and diminishing quality of life. Virtual environments offer an ecologically valid way to evaluate a person´s ability to carry out tasks that depend on EFs. The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate the feasibility of a virtual reality office task, the Assessim Office (AO), in persons with Multiple Sclerosis and Traumatic Brain Injury, to evaluate performance of patient groups relative to each other and to healthy controls on the AO, and to explore the relationship between patient´s performance on AO tasks and neuropsychological measures of EF.