09:40 – 10:45
Visit Portugal Auditorium
Talk
Mental Health
AI
Behaviour

Experience as Medicine: From Video Games to AI and Psychedelics

Description

For millennia, humans have engaged in practices to enrich their lives and promote mental well-being, such as meditation and mindfulness. Despite this rich history and its foundation in the science of neuroplasticity, most people do not think of experiences as medicine, certainly not in the same way that they view pills. Dr. Gazzaley will share his two decades of research into advancing technology-based experiences as medicine for the mind. Notably, he will present his pioneering inventions of closed-loop video games as the first FDA-approved video game treatments.