Patent ID: 6425764
Filing Date: 2002-07-30
Classification: A61M,G16H

Abstract:
A method for treating a psychological, psychiatric, or medical condition in a human patient, comprising:(a) choosing a psychological strategy for treating said psychological, psychiatric, or medical condition; (b) providing an interactive virtual reality environment; (1) said interactive virtual reality environment comprising a technology unit arranged to display to said human patient a plurality of virtual reality environments; (2) said technology unit having an input for receiving feedback responses to said interactive virtual reality environment from said human patient; (3) said technology unit arranged to change said virtual reality environment in response to said feedback responses from said human patient; (c) selecting said virtual reality environment to correspond to said psychological strategy; (d) encoding electronic instructions for said interactive virtual reality environment; (e) loading said electronic into said virtual reality technology unit; and (f) instructing said human patient how and when to use said virtual reality technology unit so as to experience said interactive virtual reality environment and how and when to provide feedback responses to said technology unit for changing said virtual reality environment so as to treat said psychological, psychiatric, or medical condition.