For the Treatment of Mental Conditions and Disorders: Immense unexplored Opportunity from Capacity Management

Capacity bottlenecks are a common phenomenon with complex systems. The brain is a complex system and it seems accepted that bottlenecks exist in the brain. However, research on the implications of bottlenecks and the use of capacity management techniques has yet to be found. Although unknown by those offering the therapies, therapies listed here obviously apply capacity management techniques. This opens immense opportunity.

What's a capacity bottleneck?

• Think about a traffic jam. The bottleneck is normally at the front of the queue. The queue, delays, traffic jams at secondary roads and accidents in the queue are all consequences of the primary bottleneck.
• Suggestion: Think about symptoms related to mental health as if they were traffic jams. The cars are pieces of information that need to go through different bottlenecks. The consequences are poor reading and communication skills, highly emotional reactions, concentration problems, headaches, etc.
• Capacity bottlenecks are a common phenomenon in complex dynamic systems. They occur on highway, in computers, public transport systems and sky scrapers, among other things.

Current Status - June 2010

• Presented at NeuroTalk2010, Singapore (download link below).
• Published (see links below).
• Posters shown at five scientific conferences (was included in other posters; see also Fundamental Principles).
• Presentations given at University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland and University of Bielefeld, Germany.
• Number of brain researchers with good knowledge of capacity management techniques found: none so far
• Tours Autism Conference: Following a question as to whether capacity management techniques have been used to research treatment, nobody in the audience could point to such research.
• Patent applications are pending in the United States and Europe. It is noted that non-commercial activities for scientific research purposes and, in Europe, therapeutic methods are not restricted by patents. With regard to the US, applicants declare that they will not enforce patent claims relating exclusively to therapeutic methods and will not claim royalties for the execution of such therapeutic methods in the US. It is noted that applicants do not grant a free-license for products (for example monitoring equipment) used as part of a therapeutic method. However, such licensing is normally covered between product vendor and patent applicants.

More information

Oetringer, E., Fitzgerald, M., How capacity management techniques from engineering disciplines can be explored for the treatment of mental disorders, NeuroTalk2010 conference, Singapore, June 2010 (talk): click here to download¹.

Oetringer, E., Fitzgerald, M., Hypothesis: Capacity bottlenecks cause mental conditions and disorders. International Conference on Innovative Research In Autism, Tours, France, April 2009 (poster): click here to download¹.

Oetringer, E., Fitzgerald, M., Hypothesis: Capacity bottlenecks cause mental conditions and disorders. Bioscience Hypotheses. 1/1 pp. 28-31; 10.1016/j.bihy.2008.02.002

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