Virtual reality treatment of flying phobia

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3 SPEC., 2002, Pages 206-212

  Baños, Rosa M ^a   Botella, Cristina ^b   Perpiñá, Concepción ^a   Alcañiz, Mariano ^c   Lozano, Jose Antonio ^c   Osma, Jorge ^b   Gallardo, Myriam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Universidad Jaume I de Castellón   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; Flying phobia (FP); Virtual exposure; Virtual reality (VR)

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PATIENT TREATMENT; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; FLYING PHOBIA; VIRTUAL EXPOSURE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PANIC; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESENSITIZATION, PSYCHOLOGIC; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PANIC DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0036708413     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2002.802380     Document Type: Article

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