This article details how an application named Bravemind can assist veterans with virtual exposure therapy. Bravemind, using proprietary hardware creates trauma relevant scenarios to help patients confront and process difficult memories in a safe and supportive environment, this is called Safe exposure (Waldrop, M). Recently, Bravemind has been ported to the HTC Vive and Oculus …
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This article exemplifies exposure therapy by confronting patients with their phobias and flowing a patient named Edwin. A patient stricken with fear in public places and constantly thinking people are going to attack him. Temming talks about his adjustment and success being in these scenarios(like the video above) and how he recovered. Edwin later went …
Autism is topic of discussion for VR research as well. Although different in nature,, those with autism can exhibit similar difficulty to those with conditions such as ADD or ADHD and can be treated similarly in some cases (Strickland, D). Using this knowledge, one could stipulate practices from ADD and ADHD research that can be …
Virtual Reality, a therapeutic solution to modern problems and mental health