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Psychotic manifestation and mental state evaluation apparatus and evaluation method

  • US 7,942,816 B2
  • Filed: 08/09/2006
  • Issued: 05/17/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A psychotic manifestation and mental state evaluation apparatus comprising:

  • a database which stores data of stimulating Noh mask images that express various kinds of human emotions according to changes of the angles at which the masks are photographed from tilting up to tilting down;

    an image display apparatus for displaying the stimulating images;

    means for displaying questions, referred to as emotion items, about the feeling elicited by the stimulating images that have been one by one shown on the image display apparatus as well as displaying a response from a subject being evaluated to each question based on response data which includes affirmative response data, reaction data and a reaction-time value;

    means for gathering statistical data of the response to each emotion item with respect to the emotion elicited by each stimulating image; and

    processing means for evaluating psychotic manifestation and mental state based on the gathered statistical data including the number of affirmative responses, a number of expression evaluation variations, a balance coefficient of expression and a deviation score from healthy subjects'"'"' reference data that have been obtained by recalculating affirmative responses from each emotion item,wherein said database stores predetermined combinations of stimulating images photographed at different angles that have been selected from said stimulating images and plural emotion items that have been selected from said emotion items with respect to more than one psychotic manifestation and mental state,wherein said processing means collects a reaction value and a reaction-time value from the response data of the response to each emotion item that corresponds to each stimulating image, collects reaction data by comparing the reaction and reaction-time values with reference values, and collects attention data based on the reaction data with respect to each stimulating image, and evaluating psychotic manifestation and mental state based on the collected data, thereby creating attention data in regard to a specific emotion item with respect to a specific stimulating image,wherein the attention data, when used, permits said psychotic manifestation to be easily discriminated, said psychotic manifestation being one of organic brain damage, schizophrenia and depressive tendency,wherein said attention data with respect to specified stimulating image and specified emotion item has a three-dimensional structure in which plus values and minus values coexist and is displayed on said image display apparatus to permit a visual understanding of the condition of the subject,wherein after the collection, said processing means identifies a specific symptom that corresponds to said psychotic manifestation based on the attention data and a result of comparing of the selected stimulating images and the emotion items to the stimulating image and emotion item stored in the database, andwherein individual data is created for each specific symptom by including a result of comparing the reaction data to the reaction data of healthy subjects for a specific emotion item with respect to a specific symptom.

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