METHOD AND DEVICE FOR APPLYING PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAINING, METHOD FOR TRAINING CREATIVE SYMBOL THINKING AND METHOD FOR TRAINING PSYCHOEMOTIONAL STATE REGULATION Russian patent published in 2004 - IPC

FIELD: medicine; medical engineering.

SUBSTANCE: method involves training creative symbol thinking and psychoemotional state regulation skills at the first stage. The creative symbol thinking is activated during the training. Bioelectric activity is recorded and the right and the left cerebral hemisphere activity levels are compared. Comparison results are shown to patient as biofeedback signal for the patient to response to and to correct sensualization and symbol saturation of creative symbol thinking. Psychoemotional state to be supported in required condition is controlled on the basis of cardiorhythmogram and electric skin activity data. The second stage involves training the patient in overcoming obstacles on the way to achieving a goal. The patient finds optimum solution in test situations by applying creative symbol thinking and psychoemotional state regulation skills. The third stage involves applying the creative symbol thinking and psychoemotional state regulation skills to train obstacles overcoming on the way to achieving a goal in current situations encountered to the patient. When applying creative symbol thinking skills, the patient is undergone to cerebral biopotential measurements taken from the in symmetric leads, spectral components power is calculated in the right and in the left cerebral hemisphere. The power values are compared and the results are shown to patient as visual and/or audio biofeedback signal manifesting creative symbol thinking changes. The patient changes sensualization and symbol saturation of creative symbol thinking in response to it.. When training psychoemotional state regulation skills, cardiorhythmogram and electric skin activity parameters are measured as visual and/or audio biofeedback signals manifesting changes in psychoemotional state and shown to the patient. The patient activates warmth and/or heaviness feeling in creative symbol thinking mode in response to the signals. Sympathetic part of the nervous system manifestations being found predominant in checking cardiorhythmogram data, the patient activates coolness and/or motion and fly. Parasympathetic part of the nervous system manifestations being found predominant, the patient reduces psychoemotional stress intensity by applying autosuggestion in the cases the biofeedback signal points out to surpassed physical component of the galvanic skin response above the background one 1.5 times and more as high. The device has unit for taking electrophysiological signals having digital data output and control unit and in series connected unit for showing biofeedback signals and in series connected data preprocessing subunit and fast Fourier transformation subunit and subunit for calculating spectral components in beta-, alpha-, theta- and delta-rhythm frequency bandwidth in the right and the left cerebral hemisphere followed by their comparison, the subunit output being connected to the unit for showing biofeedback signals. The unit for taking electrophysiological signals having digital data output has as minimum two channels for measuring bioelectric activity in symmetric areas of the right and the left cerebral hemispheres and analog-to-digital transformation subunit connected with its input to channels for measuring biological cerebral activity and with its output to inputs of data preprocessing subunit. The other output of the control unit is connected to the second input of the fast Fourier transformation subunit.

EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness of psychological training; developed patient intellect; activated creative abilities.

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