VR In Mental Health
- Using exposure therapy in VR to treat paranoia(Video/Media Don’t click the link below)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 …
- 3 Positive Uses of Virtual Reality(Media)Positive use cases for Virtual Reality can be far past the general use of gaming. In real world environments it is being utilized as a treatment verses a traditional gaming console. It has benefited patients by using it as a form of distraction/therapy from pain and injury. By stimulating the brain with VR, studies found …
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- Bravemind: Helping treat veterans with PTSD(Academic/Video)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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- Virtual Reality Therapy: Treating The Global Mental Health Crisis(Media)On a daily bases many people experience levels of stress and anxiety from different areas of life and social interaction. With a rise in mental disorders and the cost for treatment with possible disturbing affects virtual realty can be an alternative treatment. Due to the cost limitations of VR as a treatment it is no …
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- Emotionally-Adaptive Virtual Reality for Mental Health Applications(Academic)The goal is to design and kick off a general system adaptive environment for users to experience to improve mental health. All to be used in a VR context. The concept entails what they call, an Emotional Labyrinth, a 3D maze procedural generated by the users decisions, with its look and features changing in accordance …
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Virtual Reality, a therapeutic solution to modern problems and mental health 