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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2014
Posit Science Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael M. Merzenich, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chung-Hay Luk, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Mor Nahum, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jyoti Mishra Ramanathan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas Matthew Van Vleet, El Cerrito, CA (US);
POSIT SCIENCE CORPORATION, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A training program is configured to systematically drive neurological changes to treat an addiction, wherein a plurality of addiction-related stimuli stimulate craving for the object of the addiction. The training program comprises at least one computerized reverse conditioning game configured to present a plurality of target and distractor stimuli, wherein a subset of the distractor stimuli are addiction-related stimuli, and prompts a game participant to respond to the target stimuli and ignore the distractor stimuli.