Caution: Personal Zen is a computerized behavioral therapy (CBT) medical device software to provide a neurobehavioral intervention in patients 13 years of age and older with mild to severe levels of clinically elevated anxiety or distress, and is currently commercially distributed without prescription under FDA’s Enforcement Policy for Digital Health Devices For Treating Psychiatric Disorders.
Personal Zen is a game-based digital therapeutic intended to treat patients 13 years of age and older with mild to severe levels of clinically elevated anxiety or distress and is intended to be used in consultation with your healthcare provider.
Through this proprietary approach to ABM, Personal Zen uses gamification to target neural pathways associated with emotional and attentional patterns that can drive excessive anxiety and distress.
Personal Zen uses facial archetypes and gamification to re-train emotional and attentional patterns that can drive persistent feelings of anxiety and distress.
Personal Zen has been clinically validated through six randomized controlled clinical trials published in leading peer-reviewed research journals including Clinical Psychological Science, Behavior Research & Therapy, and Biological Psychology.
Personal Zen’s proprietary game mechanics have been designed and optimized through a decade of neuroscientific research using EEG, neurostimulation, eye tracking, heart rate monitoring and MRI.
Personal Zen’s core therapeutic mechanism of action is a game-based approach to a decades old area of neurocognitive research known as Attention Bias Modification (ABM).
After 4 weeks of usage, clinical effects have included a 38% reduction in anxiety (Beck Anxiety Inventory), a 491% reduction in cognitive signs of anxiety (Dot-Probe Task Measure), as well as a statistically significant reduction in the stress hormone cortisol.
Based on your current levels of anxiety, fatigue and pain, a daily goal of gameplay is recommended (typically between 6 and 12 minutes).
To play Personal Zen, swipe the path left by the friendly sprite (smiling face) after it disappears.
Start by logging your levels of Anxiety, Fatigue, and Pain.
It is recommended that you meet this daily goal 4 days a week for at least 4 weeks.
The human brain is uniquely predisposed to unconscious, sub-second processing of facial expression.
Above claims have not been evaluated by the FDA for safety and efficacy under a premarket review.
