Experts in psychiatry test the newest way of treatment aimed at helping people with schizophrenia in the struggle with hallucinations.
The new system will enable patients to exercise such control sounding voices in their head. We are talking about a new way, which is dubbed avatar-therapy. The first step of this treatment makes the computer picture patient. The patient chooses the voice and face of continuing to talk with a therapist. Further, the system synchronizes it with the lips of the man avatar. This will allow the doctor to communicate with the patient at this point in real time. The therapist should encourage the person to deal with hallucinations, and even to control them.
In a pilot study involved 16 people who have gone through the new treatment. The doctors found out that all they notice decrease the incidence of votes, and even further stresses. This treatment has the ability to help patients find the courage to fight the disease. On this claim scientists from University College London.
Any treatment session is recorded and output to MP3-player. Other methods of treatment for schizophrenia is quite lengthy and expensive. If it turns out that the avatar-therapy is effective, it will move further. Develop simple, and experts have mastered the necessary skills.