BusWorld: Designing a virtual environment for post-traumatic stress disorder in Israel: A protocol

Cyberpsychology and Behavior

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 241-244

  Josman, Naomi ^a   Somer, Eli ^a   Reisberg, Ayelet ^a,d   Weiss, Patrice L ^a   Garcia Palacios, Azucena ^b   Hoffman, Hunter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d SHALVATA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMOTION; HELMET; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; ISRAEL; LOGIC; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RECALL; TERRORISM; VICTIM; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESENSITIZATION, PSYCHOLOGIC; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MOTOR VEHICLES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TERRORISM; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33646735831     PISSN: 10949313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cpb.2006.9.241     Document Type: Article

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