At present,depression is treated with antidepressant drugs and assisted with psychotherapy and physical therapy,and these expensive and time-consuming treatment methods often end prematurely and result in a prolonged ...At present,depression is treated with antidepressant drugs and assisted with psychotherapy and physical therapy,and these expensive and time-consuming treatment methods often end prematurely and result in a prolonged course w ithout effective symptom relief. Therefore,based on the neurofeedback therapy,a novel depression rehabilitation method using a Virtual-Reality(VR) game framew ork is proposed. In this VR game framew ork,an innovative threeelectrode Electroencephalography(EEG) collector is used to record patients' EEG data. The data are processed and converted into feedback features,and the feedback w ill be displayed to patients in real time through a VR headset. Patients can adjust their psychological activity based on the feedback,and relieve their physiological dysfunction effectively. The framew ork also provides a data storage module,w hich may offer therapists w ays to assess patients' rehabilitation results in a long term,as w ell as provide possibility to continue tow ards better algorithm of feedback features w ith data-mining.The prototype system is tested in the framew ork,and the experimental results prove the effectiveness of the framew ork in depression rehabilitation.展开更多
基金National Basic Research Program of China(2014CB744600)National Natural Science Foundation of China(61632014,61210010)+2 种基金Program of Beijing M unicipal Science&Technology Commission(Z171100000117005)Program of International S&T Cooperation of M OST(2013DFA11140)National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFC1307203)
文摘At present,depression is treated with antidepressant drugs and assisted with psychotherapy and physical therapy,and these expensive and time-consuming treatment methods often end prematurely and result in a prolonged course w ithout effective symptom relief. Therefore,based on the neurofeedback therapy,a novel depression rehabilitation method using a Virtual-Reality(VR) game framew ork is proposed. In this VR game framew ork,an innovative threeelectrode Electroencephalography(EEG) collector is used to record patients' EEG data. The data are processed and converted into feedback features,and the feedback w ill be displayed to patients in real time through a VR headset. Patients can adjust their psychological activity based on the feedback,and relieve their physiological dysfunction effectively. The framew ork also provides a data storage module,w hich may offer therapists w ays to assess patients' rehabilitation results in a long term,as w ell as provide possibility to continue tow ards better algorithm of feedback features w ith data-mining.The prototype system is tested in the framew ork,and the experimental results prove the effectiveness of the framew ork in depression rehabilitation.
