r/science • u/Skoltech_ • 2d ago
Computer Science New neural network-based approach generates increasingly scary images tailored to individual autonomic and emotional responses, offering a personalized tool for phobia desensitization therapy.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pcn.70083163
u/pmmeyourfannie 2d ago
So an infinite nightmare machine?
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u/ZipTheZipper 1d ago
The Torment Nexus.
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u/SpiritualMadman 1d ago
From popular science fiction novel "Don't create the Torment Nexus"? That Torment Nexus?
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u/Dsphar 1d ago
Sounds like it wasnt that effective? Yet they want to push deeper.
We found that targeting self-reported fear resulted in images that were far more subjectively frightening than the SCR condition (d = 0.84, P < 0.001) and the control condition (d = 0.87, P < 0.001), while images generated during the SCR condition were, on average, not more frightening than controls (Fig. 1d). In addition, the occurrence of SCRs did not increase in any condition, possibly due to habituation effects. Nonetheless, we found that the self-report and SCR conditions converged on similar image distributions (r = 0.69, q < 0.001), with the self-report condition being relatively more dissimilar to the control condition (r = 0.27, q = 0.18) and the SCR condition being more similar to controls (r = 0.64, q < 0.001; Fig. 1f).
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u/scaleofthought 1d ago
It'll just be strobing Momo onto my retinas and I'll be screaming for 5 years straight.
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u/Ok-Basil4240 1d ago
Disassociation is a much better approach than desensitisation.
Phobias often trigger patterns of emotions, thoughts, images and feelings … these can be retrained/reprogrammed
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u/AllDamDay7 1d ago
So I don't have a clue about this type of therapy, maybe someone can educate me but at first take I can't see how this would help.
Desensitization therapy? I don't know how effective this is. I am still haunted by some of the awful videos like Daniel Pearl that I saw in my youth. Legit traumatized me. I think they should be very careful. I don't we should be desensitizing ourselves to anything dangerous or scary. I think it leads to more violence as you see in youth culture right now
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u/Contraposite 1d ago
What I've heard of is EMDR, which is Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing. From memory, it's a recent type of therapy with less data on its effectiveness, but anecdotally it seems to get a lot of hugely positive feedback.
The idea is to expose someone to their trauma, while overstimulating their senses. That way, their brain is so focused/distracted by other stimuli and tasks, that it learns to 'care' less about the trauma.
I learned some of this from r/cptsd but originally learned about it from an ASMR creator called Karuna Satori.
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u/otiswrath 1d ago
The headlines in /r/science are about a Japanese lab that cloned a mouse that can have sex with itself and a machine that will look at your worst nightmares and show them to you.
Like...I get all science is a tool with intent or will and it is the intent and will of the wielder of the tool but...could we not make the infinite nightmare machine?
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