Patent ID: 7264595

Claim:
A method for detection and improving of visual attention in a patient, said method comprising: a) generating of at least one group of visually recognizable stimuli, said stimuli being presented by alphanumeric signs displayed in a running mode defined by a time gap between consecutive stimuli; b) exposing the patient to the stimuli; c) determining the ability of the patient to recognize the stimuli; d) varying the time gap between the stimuli in accordance with the patient's ability to recognize the stimuli; e) a preliminary training step, in which the patient is exposed to a single group of stimuli displayed at an invariant time gap, which is set to match the within visual persistence frequency range limit of the human visual system of a normal person, who does not suffer from visual attention deficit; f) a diagnostic step, in which the patient is exposed to several consecutive groups of stimuli, which are displayed at least at a first and at a second time gap, said second time gap being larger than the first time gap and said diagnostic step results in establishing whether the patient suffers from visual attention deficit; and, g) a treatment step, in which the patient suffering from visual attention deficit is exposed to those groups of stimuli, which were displayed at the diagnostic step, but the patient recognized only part of the stimuli within a group, wherein the patient is exposed to a group containing unrecognized stimuli, which is displayed at an intermediate time gap, said intermediate time gap lies between the first time gap and the second time gap.