METHOD FOR REDUCTION AND PREVENTION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL GAMBLING ADDICTION (VERSIONS) AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTATION THEREOF Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC A61M21/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions refers to medicine, namely to methods for correction of attitude to gambling and reduction of psychological gambling addiction, and can be used in prevention of gambling addiction or rehabilitation of patients with treated gambling addiction. In version No. 1, a gambler is exposed to an emotional impact before and/or during the game, including the gamble by image visualisation and additional frame display. The visualiser presents the gambling images, while the meaning of the additional frame images is selected so that to impair an emotional perception of the gamble. In version No. 2, the gambler is exposed to the emotional impact before and/or during the gamble by image visualisation and additional frame display therefore a special musical illustration of the gamble is created by choosing by the gamble nature so that to impair the emotional perception of the gamble. A device comprises a gambling unit and a monitor, an electric power package including gambling controls, a sound reproduction system connected to the gambling unit. The device comprises: a control unit coupled with the gambling unit which is supplied with a memory unit, while the gambling unit creates both a gambling image video signal and additional frame image signal which are used to induce a negative attitude to gambling. The additional frame image signal can be realised by 25th frame addition in a video series of the gamble and/or by imposing an additional image.

EFFECT: group of inventions allows to provide a complete automatic preventative rehabilitation process.

24 cl, 5 ex