Patent ID: 8306610

Claim:
A non-invasive method for diagnosing the state or condition of a human or animal or other living organism, the living organism generating physiological modulating signals, the modulating signals having temporal-spatial organization characterized by dynamic patterns with fractal structure that varies in both frequency and amplitude, said method comprising: simultaneously recording, as a sequence of temporal-spatial values, the variance of at least one physiological modulating signal over a period that is generally greater than two minutes and generally less than twenty-four hours; plotting each sequence of temporal-spatial values so as to display amplitude as a function of time; plotting each sequence of temporal-spatial values so as to display frequency as a function of time: calculating first and second derivatives of the respective temporal-spatial value sequence plottings in order to determine velocity and acceleration, as a function of time, for each of the plottings of said at least one physiological modulating signal; converting each data point in each of the temporal-spatial value sequence plottings into normalized units, using linear and nonlinear mathematical tools so that amplitude and frequency patterns of said at least one monitored physiological modulating signal can be directly compared with established sets of amplitude and frequency patterns reflective of particular psychiatric and/or physical disorders; and diagnosing a psychiatric and/or physical disorder by determining which of said established sets of patterns, with their transitional states, substantially correspond to those of the monitored physiological modulating signals.