Self-Administered Brain Programming System for Emotional Regulation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing therapies for severe emotional trauma, such as EMDR and ART, require the presence of a trained professional, limiting accessibility, convenience, and affordability, and often necessitating multiple sessions.

Innovation Solution

A self-administration brain programming system that includes visual, haptic, and audio stimuli, along with a list of directives, allowing individuals to complete a brain programming session independently in about ten minutes, reducing emotional responses to past events, programming future events and patterns, and balancing brain activity.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional therapies like EMDR and ART are used, then therapeutic effectiveness is improved, but accessibility and convenience deteriorate due to requiring trained professionals

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetherapeutic effectivenessVSAvoidaccessibility and convenience

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-administered brain programming sessions where individuals can independently complete therapeutic exercises using visual, haptic, and audio stimuli without requiring a trained therapist present, thereby improving accessibility while maintaining therapeutic effectiveness

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system replicates the core therapeutic mechanisms of professional EMDR and ART therapies through standardized protocols and multi-sensory stimuli delivery, making the therapeutic effect accessible without requiring the original therapist's expertise

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

2Reliability

If multiple therapy sessions are conducted, then therapeutic results are improved, but time consumption and cost increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetherapeutic resultsVSAvoidtime consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system allows individuals to perform brain programming exercises continuously at home without scheduling constraints, enabling repeated short sessions that accumulate therapeutic effect over time without the time loss associated with traveling to and from professional therapy appointments

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Solution Approach 2:

The therapy is divided into discrete, self-contained exercise modules that can be completed in short time intervals, allowing users to accumulate therapeutic benefit through multiple brief sessions rather than requiring lengthy continuous professional therapy appointments

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12224056B1System and method for self-regulating brain patterns

Publication Date: 2025.02.11 CREWS-KETTERLING DEBRA

AI summary

A system and method for individual administration of a brain programming session including providing a device to provide visual, haptic, and audio stimuli to an individual at relevant times during the brain programming session. The system and method further include providing a list of directives configured to be executed by the individual during the brain programming session. The list of directives may reduce the individual's emotional responses to past events and conditions or to program mindsets and emotions for future performances and events. While executing the list of directives, the individual will experience visual, haptic, and audio stimuli provided by the device. Completion or partial completion of a list of directives results in brain activity being more balanced across brain regions when experiencing past events or conditions that yield an emotional response or when experiencing future performances and events for which the individual has programmed mindsets and emotions.