Patent ID: 8083675
Filing Date: 2011-12-27
Classification: A61B,G09B

Abstract:
1. A method for mitigating the decline of and maintaining and improving a users cognitive abilities, said method incorporating a processor configured for providing interactive adaptive rule based cognitive stimulation to the user via a display unit during a stimulation session of the user, said user having an initial predetermined cognitive profile defined for a plurality of cognitive domains, said stimulation session comprising at least one event, said event contained within an event subtype, said event subtype contained within an event type, said event type contained within a cognitive domain said method comprising the steps of: instructing the processor to select an event type, an event subtype and an event in accordance with a plurality of predefined rules in an initial hierarchy of rules; instructing the processor to establish a stimulation protocol in at least one cognitive domain based upon the hierarchy of predefined rules and the user's cognitive profile, instructing the processor to present cognitive stimulation in accordance with the stimulation protocol to the user via the display unit for user interaction therewith for mitigating the decline of and maintaining and improving the user's cognitive abilities, evaluating the user's response to the cognitive stimulation; providing user feedback indicative of the evaluated response; adaptively modifying the user's cognitive profile as a function of the users evaluated response; adaptively modifying the hierarchy of rules as a function of the user's modified cognitive profile; and instructing the processor to establish a modified stimulation protocol based upon the modified hierarchy of rules and the modified user's cognitive profile prior to the presentation of a succeeding cognitive stimulation.