METHODS FOR ENHANCING EXPOSURE THERAPY USING PAIRING WITH VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION

A therapy method (for a patient having post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)) includes providing an exposure event to the patient which is related to a traumatic event that contributed to the PTSD. A therapy method (for a patient having a phobia disorder) includes providing an extinction event to th...

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Hauptverfasser:	ENGINEER, Navzer Dara, KILGARD, Michael P, RODRIGUEZ, Christa McIntyre
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ADVERTISING APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND,DEAF OR MUTE CRYPTOGRAPHY DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROMTHE BODY DIAGRAMS DISPLAY EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES ELECTROTHERAPY GLOBES HUMAN NECESSITIES HYGIENE MAGNETOTHERAPY MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE PHYSICS PLANETARIA RADIATION THERAPY SEALS ULTRASOUND THERAPY
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Zusammenfassung:	A therapy method (for a patient having post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)) includes providing an exposure event to the patient which is related to a traumatic event that contributed to the PTSD. A therapy method (for a patient having a phobia disorder) includes providing an extinction event to the patient which is related to something that contributed to the phobia disorder. A therapy method (for a patient having an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)) includes providing a therapy event to the patient which is related to something that contributed to the OCD. A therapy method (for a patient having an addiction disorder) includes providing a therapy event to the patient which is related to one or more things that contributed to the addiction disorder. Each of the therapy methods further includes providing vagus nerve stimulation to the patient electrically in temporal proximity to the corresponding exposure event, extinction event or therapy event.