Biomonitoring stress management method and device
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1. A method of increasing a person'"'"'s ability to perform under anxiety induced, psychophysiological stress, comprising the steps of:
- (A) providing a computer controlled device including an interactive communication link between said device and said person;
(B) programming said computer for controlling said device to create a task of progressively increasing difficulty to be accomplished by said person whih creates anxiety in said person;
(C) determining the level of psychophysiological stress of said person induced by said anxiety beyond which the performance of said person in accomplishing said tasks decreases;
(D) providing said person with an indication of the level of psychophysiological stress determined in step (C);
(E) allowing said person'"'"'s stress level to fall below the level indicated in step (D), then changing said task in a manner to increase the stress level experienced by said person in accomplishing said task.
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Abstract
A method of managing and controlling stress in a person engaged in a goal oriented, cognitive task involves simultaneous measurement of a physical parameter of the person which varies in accordance with the level of the person'"'"'s stress and the productivity of the person performing the task. A programmed computer calculates the stress point for the person beyond which productivity decreases and provides a visual display of the physical parameters and stress point on a cathode ray tube.
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1. A method of increasing a person'"'"'s ability to perform under anxiety induced, psychophysiological stress, comprising the steps of:
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(A) providing a computer controlled device including an interactive communication link between said device and said person; (B) programming said computer for controlling said device to create a task of progressively increasing difficulty to be accomplished by said person whih creates anxiety in said person; (C) determining the level of psychophysiological stress of said person induced by said anxiety beyond which the performance of said person in accomplishing said tasks decreases; (D) providing said person with an indication of the level of psychophysiological stress determined in step (C); (E) allowing said person'"'"'s stress level to fall below the level indicated in step (D), then changing said task in a manner to increase the stress level experienced by said person in accomplishing said task. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A method of managing anxiety induced stress level in a person engaged in a goal oriented, anxiety producing task of progressively increasing difficulty, beyond which stress level the person'"'"'s performance in achieving said task decreases, comprising the steps of:
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(A) monitoring at least one physical parameter of said person which varies in accordance with the level of anxiety induced stress experience by said person; (B) monitoring the performance of said person in accomplishing said task; (C) determining a point in said task when the difficulty of said task causes the performance of said person to decrease while simultaneously determining the stress level of said person at said point from said physical parameter; (D) altering the difficulty of said task when said point of step (C) is reached; and (E) repeating steps (A) through (D). - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of managing anxiety induced stress in a person, comprising the steps of:
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(A) causing the person to undergo an anxiety producing, cognitive task; (B) monitoring a physical parameter of said person which varies in accordance with the magnitude of anxiety induced stress experienced by said person during performance of said task; (C) monitoring the ability of said person to perform said task; (D) increasing the difficulty of said task; (E) determining the magnitude of stress from the parameter monitored in step (B) when the difficulty of said task reaches a level thereof beyond which the ability measured in step (C) decreases; (F) providing said person with an indication of the magnitude of stress determined in step (E); (G) repeating steps (A) through (F) when the level of stress falls below the level indicated in step (F). - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method of increasing a person'"'"'s ability to perform under anxiety induced, psychophysiological stress, comprising the steps of:
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(A) causing said person to undergo an anxiety producing task of progressively increasing difficulty; (B) monitoring a physical parameter of said person which varies in accordance with the magnitude of psychophysiological stress experienced by said person as a result of performing said task; (C) monitoring the performance of said person in accomplishing said task; (D) determining the level of stress beyond which said monitored performance decreases, using the monitored physical parameter and the monitored performance; (E) providing said person with an indication of the level of said stress determined in step (D); and (F) allowing said person to reduce said level of stress by biofeedback; (G) after step (F), changing said task in a manner which increases the stress of said person in accomplishing said task. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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24. For use with a person engaged in a goal oriented, cognitive task which results in anxiety induced, psychophysiological stress in said person, a method of increasing the person'"'"'s ability to perform under said stress, comprising the steps of:
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(A) monitoring a physical parameter of said person while said person is performing said task, said parameter varying in accordance with the level of said stress; (B) monitoring the performance of said person in accomplishing said task; (C) determining a first level of said stress for said person from said parameter beyond which level the performance of said person does not substantially increase; (D) storing data corresponding to said first stress level determined in step (C); (E) providing said person with an indication of said first stress level determined in step (C) while said person is performing said task, whereby to allow said person to reduce said stress level through biofeedback; (F) increasing the difficulty of said task after the person'"'"'s stress level is reduced below said first stress level based on the data stored in step (D); (G) repeating step (A); (H) monitoring the performance of said person in accomplishing the tasks after step (F) is performed; (I) determining a second level of stress greater than said first level beyond which the performance of said person does not substantially increase; (J) storing data corresponding to said second stress level determined in step (I); (K) providing said person with an indication of said second stress level determined in step (I) while said person is performing said task, whereby to allow said person to reduce said stress level through biofeedback. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26)
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