Prophylactic reduction and remediation of schizophrenic impairments through interactive behavioral training
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1. A computer-implemented method for remediating schizophrenia in a person, comprising:
- (a) assessing, using a computer-implemented interactive behavioral assessment regime, a schizophrenia risk factor for said person;
(b) if said schizophrenia risk factor is greater than a predefined benchmark, periodically reassessing said schizophrenia risk factor by waiting for at least a predefined period of time, and performing step (a) after said predefined period of time expires;
(c) if said schizophrenia risk factor is below said predefined benchmark, treating said person by administering computer-implemented interactive behavioral training to said person, said computer-implemented interactive behavioral training being sufficiently intensive during each training day to drive a neurochemical change in said person'"'"'s brain to remediate said schizophrenia over time.
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Abstract
Computer-implemented perceptual and cognitive training techniques for remediating schizophrenia, either prophylactically prior to the onset of clinically observable schizophrenic behaviors or after the development of schizophrenia symptoms in a person. The computer-implemented behavioral exercises are designed to be sufficiently intensive, both in the number of repetitions and in the attentional focus related to task difficulty, such that permanent changes in neurotransmitter expression are achieved.
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23 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method for remediating schizophrenia in a person, comprising:
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(a) assessing, using a computer-implemented interactive behavioral assessment regime, a schizophrenia risk factor for said person;
(b) if said schizophrenia risk factor is greater than a predefined benchmark, periodically reassessing said schizophrenia risk factor by waiting for at least a predefined period of time, and performing step (a) after said predefined period of time expires;
(c) if said schizophrenia risk factor is below said predefined benchmark, treating said person by administering computer-implemented interactive behavioral training to said person, said computer-implemented interactive behavioral training being sufficiently intensive during each training day to drive a neurochemical change in said person'"'"'s brain to remediate said schizophrenia over time. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A computer readable medium for remediating schizophrenia for a person, said computer readable medium comprising:
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(a) instructions for assessing, using a computer-implemented interactive behavioral assessment regime, a schizophrenia risk factor for said person;
(b) instructions for, if said schizophrenia risk factor is greater than a predefined benchmark, periodically reassessing said schizophrenia risk factor by waiting for at least a predefined period of time, and performing (a) after said predefined period of time expires;
(c) instructions for, if said schizophrenia risk factor is below said predefined benchmark, treating said person by administering computer-implemented interactive behavioral training to said person, said computer-implemented interactive behavioral training being sufficiently intensive during each training day to drive a neurochemical change in said person'"'"'s brain to remediate said schizophrenia over time.
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23. A computer implemented method for delivering computer readable instructions for remotely remediating schizophrenia for a person, said method being implemented using a computer network having a monitoring computer and a remote administering computer, said remote administering computer being geographically remote from said monitoring computer and local to said person, said method comprising:
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(a) transmitting, over a signal transmission medium, signals representative of instructions for assessing, using a computer-implemented interactive behavioral assessment regime, a schizophrenia risk factor for said person;
(b) transmitting, over a signal transmission medium, signals representative of instructions for, if said schizophrenia risk factor is greater than a predefined benchmark, periodically reassessing said schizophrenia risk factor by waiting for at least a predefined period of time, and performing (a) after said predefined period of time expires;
(c) transmitting, over a signal transmission medium, signals representative of instructions for, if said schizophrenia risk factor is below said predefined benchmark, treating said person by administering computer-implemented interactive behavioral training to said person, said computer-implemented interactive behavioral training being sufficiently intensive during each training day to drive a neurochemical change in said person'"'"'s brain to remediate said schizophrenia over time.
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