Hero Beats: therapy in your pocket
Problem to be solved
Impulsive-compulsive spectrum disorders (ICSDs) represent a great challenge for mental health professionals, as they are present in several psychopathologies, such as behavioural addictions (BA), like gambling disorder or gaming addiction, and eating disorders (ED), like bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. According to empirical evidence, such patients show a lack of strategies to cope with strong emotional states and tend to show high relapse and dropout rates from traditional therapies.
Technology
Hero Beats is a Digital Serious Game that works as a complement to standard Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in ICSDs. By means of a biosensor connected to the app, patients receive feedback on the heart rate variability, training in the identification of emotional states that can alter this physiological measure. To date, it has been successfully implemented in 50 patients with ICSDs, showing a reduction in relapse by combining CBT and Hero Beats and increasing adherence to treatment up to 85%.
Autors
Susana Jiménez-Murcia
Technology Readiness Level
TRL6
What are we looking for?
Co-development or investment