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Baseline the roster
Capture each player's individual cognitive baseline in preseason — reaction time, accuracy, and consistency across a validated battery.
Performance & wellness · not diagnostic
Measure the cognition behind competitive play.
Reaction time, decision speed, and accuracy are what separate the best players — and they rise and fall with fatigue, sleep, and stress. DANA gives esports organizations an objective, 5-minute way to baseline, track, and protect the mind that plays the game.
- 5-minute assessment
- Works offline
- iOS & Android
- Sleep & burnout scales
- Embeddable SDK
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Cognitive Performance Index
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Index across the season
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Reaction
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Accuracy
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Consistency
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of competitive players fall into medium- or high-burnout-risk profiles
Journal of Sports Sciences, 2024 (N=453)
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of the variance in severe depression predicted by sleep quality in esports athletes
Sci. study of 313 competitive players, 2022
2–3 h
into a session, cognitive decline sets in — before players consciously feel it
Computers in Human Behavior, 2024
5 min
per DANA assessment — fits between scrims, on the devices you already have
DANA Brain Vital
Why measure, not just train
Players can't feel their own decline.
Research on extended play shows an unsettling gap: measurable cognition drops hours before a player consciously feels tired — and it happens to novices and pros alike. Scrim quality, tilt, and late-game mistakes often trace back to cognitive fatigue no one saw coming.
- Objectively track reaction time and accuracy — the abilities that define competitive skill.
- Catch session fatigue before it becomes losses, tilt, or injury-risk overplay.
- Measure within-player change against each individual's own baseline, not a generic norm.
Hidden fatigue over a session
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Measured cognition
Perceived freshness
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The esports workflow
Baseline. Monitor. Manage the load.
A five-minute loop that slots into a competitive schedule — preseason through playoffs.
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Monitor through the grind
Re-check around scrim blocks, bootcamps, and travel — offline-capable, five minutes, no special hardware. Spot fatigue and sleep debt as they build.
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Manage & document
Review trends against baseline in the web portal, pair them with sleep and mood scales, and give coaches and performance staff objective data to act on.
In your esports world
Where DANA plugs in.
From the pro team house to the collegiate club room to the streamer's desk.
Performance departments
Give sports-science and performance staff an objective cognitive metric alongside their VOD review and biometrics — baselined per player, tracked all season.
Scrim & load management
Track cognitive fatigue across long practice blocks and bootcamps so staff know when a scrim is productive — and when the room is running on empty.
The cognitive combine
Add a standardized cognitive profile to tryouts and academy evaluations — an objective data point on the raw reaction-time and decision speed behind the aim.
Collegiate programs
Bring duty-of-care to varsity and club esports — most student players have none of the health support traditional athletes get. A wellness baseline for the whole team.
Streamers & creators
Marathon streams wreck sleep and stack up burnout. A five-minute self-check plus sleep and mood scales helps creators manage their own cognitive load.
Coaching & analytics stacks
Embed DANA via SDK next to aim trainers and analytics tools — a validated cognitive-and-wellness layer, white-labeled into your own product.
Player cognitive profile
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Preseason baseline
Current
The cognitive profile
Seven domains that map to competitive play.
DANA's validated battery measures the paradigms that underpin FPS, MOBA, and fighting-game performance — reaction time, target discrimination, spatial processing, and working memory — producing a multi-domain profile you can track over a split or a career.
Simple Reaction Time
Procedural Reaction Time
Go / No-Go
Spatial Processing
Match-to-Sample
Code Substitution
Memory Search
Team-scale view
See the whole roster at a glance.
The clinician-and-staff web portal aggregates results across the roster into a readiness view — so a performance manager can spot the player trending down before a big match, and build practice and rest around real data instead of guesswork.
- Multi-player readiness across the practice week.
- Individual trends against each player's baseline.
- Export PDF summaries and raw CSV for the performance staff.
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MTWTFSS
Duelist
Controller
Initiator
Sentinel
IGL
At / above baseline
Slight dip
Fatigue flag
Rest day
Player wellness
Cognition plus the wellness scales that matter in esports.
Sleep, stress, and burnout drive performance. DANA pairs objective cognition with standardized, auto-scored questionnaires.
ISI Insomnia
PSQI Sleep quality
PHQ-9 Depression
GAD-7 Anxiety
PC-PTSD Trauma screen
+ more
Performance & wellness use. In esports, DANA is a performance and general-wellness tool — it is not a diagnostic device and does not determine who plays. Questionnaire results should be reviewed by qualified professionals.
Where it fits
Aim trainers build skill. DANA measures the brain behind it.
DANA doesn't compete with the tools players already grind — it completes the picture with validated measurement.
Training tools
Build mechanics
Aim trainers and scrims sharpen skill through reps and repetition.
DANA
Measures cognition & wellness
Validated, longitudinal reaction-time, accuracy, sleep, and burnout data.
Result
The complete picture
Skill you can train — and the mind-state that decides whether it shows up.
Next step
Bring objective cognition to your program.
See the assessment, the roster readiness view, and the player wellness scales — tailored to your team, league, or platform.
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