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Desde hace a\u00f1os que los especialistas en la conducta humana intentan encontrar un m\u00e9todo para combatir trastornos como la ansiedad y la depresi\u00f3n. Esto se ha vuelto una realidad, ya que gracias a aplicaci\u00f3n creada por un australiano, llamado Richard McNally, se podr\u00e1 ayudar a personas que padecen fobia social. Esto se realiza a trav\u00e9s de un entrenamiento que dura solamente 10 minutos<\/p>\n
El programa para tel\u00e9fonos m\u00f3viles es compatible con iPhone y Blackberry. El programa muestra dos caras en la pantalla del m\u00f3vil, una amistosa y la otra hostil, despu\u00e9s mezcla los dos rostros al mismo tiempo y por \u00faltimo emite uno que el usuario debe identificar r\u00e1pido y correctamente.<\/p>\n
El docente de la Universidad de Harvard, Richard McNally sostuvo: \u00abEste sistema se podr\u00eda usar minutos antes de que la persona tuviera que hablar en p\u00fablico o antes de una cita importante. El entrenamiento ser\u00eda diario y no durar\u00eda m\u00e1s de 10 minutos\u00bb.<\/p>\n
Un equipo de trabajo de la prestigiosa instituci\u00f3n acad\u00e9mica afirm\u00f3 que el sistema realmente ayuda a quienes padecen el trastorno de ansiedad.<\/p>\n
La fobia social es un miedo a situaciones cotidianas en las que las personas que la padecen se sienten expuestas de m\u00e1s. En ellas, el paciente teme decir algo inapropiado o comportarse de manera humillante. La enfermedad puede estar presenten en ambos sexos la misma probabilidad de desarrollarla y los primeros s\u00edntomas se dan en la infancia.<\/p>\n
Pero tambi\u00e9n existen detractores. Ellos se basan en que el paciente necesita del contacto con un profesional para curar su mal. \u00abEstamos hechos para entender lo que sucede a nuestro alrededor, y la ayuda de otro ser humano nos ayuda a entender esta realidad. Yo tendr\u00eda mucho cuidado con los tratamientos que no permitieran esto\u00bb, asegur\u00f3 Andrew J. Gerber, profesor de Psicolog\u00eda de la Universidad de Columbia.<\/p>\n
Otra de las conclusiones que se barajan sobre la efectividad de estos programas se refiere al hecho de que tomar la iniciativa y hacer algo para controlar la ansiedad es la clave para sentirse mejor.<\/p>\n
\u00abSeguiremos investigando. Queda mucho trabajo por hacer para evaluar la eficacia de estos entrenamientos, ya sea en laboratorio o en los tel\u00e9fonos inteligentes\u00bb, dijo McNally.<\/p>\n
* Nota de sci-tech-today.com<\/p>\n
The Psychologist in the Smartphone<\/p>\n
Therapy apps may soon make psychological help accessible anytime, anywhere, whether in the grocery store line, on the bus, or before a work presentation. Well-designed apps could reach millions of people who lack the means or interest to engage in traditional therapy and need more than pop mysticism and soothing thoughts.<\/p>\n
Not for long, if some scientists have their way. In the past few years researchers have been testing simple, video-game-like programs aimed at relieving common problems like anxiety and depression. These recent results have been encouraging enough that investigators are now delivering the programs on smartphones — therapy apps, in effect, that may soon make psychological help accessible anytime, anywhere, whether in the grocery store line, on the bus, or just before a work presentation.<\/p>\n
The prospect of a therapy icon next to Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja is stirring as much dread as hope in some quarters. \u00abWe are built as human beings to figure out our place in the world , to construct a narrative in the context of a relationship that gives meaning to our lives,\u00bb said Dr. Andrew Gerber, a psychiatrist at Columbia University. \u00abI would be wary of treatments that don’t allow for that.\u00bb<\/p>\n
The upside is that well-designed apps could reach millions of people who lack the means or the interest to engage in traditional therapy and need more than the pop mysticism, soothing thoughts or confidence boosters currently in use.<\/p>\n
\u00abThat is what makes the idea so promising,\u00bb said Richard McNally, a psychologist at Harvard whose lab recently completed a study of 338 people using a simple program accessible on their smartphones. \u00abBut there are big questions about how it could work, and how robust the effect really is.\u00bb<\/p>\n
The smartphone study is only one of the most recent tests of an approach called cognitive bias modification, or C.B.M., that seeks to break some of the brain’s bad habits. The theory is straightforward. Consider people with social anxiety, a kind of extreme shyness that can be physically disabling. Studies have found that people struggling with such anxiety tend to fixate subconsciously on hostile faces in a crowd of people with mostly relaxed expressions, as if they see only the bad apples in a bushel of mostly good ones.<\/p>\n
Modifying that bias — that is, reducing it — can interrupt the cascade of ruminations that normally follow, short-circuiting the anxiety, lab studies suggest. In one commonly used program, for instance, people see two faces on their screen, one with a neutral expression and one looking hostile. The faces are stacked one atop the other and a split-second later they disappear, and a single letter flashes on screen, either in the top half or bottom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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