Virtual Iraq: Initial results from a VR exposure therapy application for combat-related PTSD

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 132, Issue , 2008, Pages 420-425

  Rizzo, Albert A ^a   Graap, Ken ^b   Perlman, Karen ^c   McLay, Robert N ^c   Rothbaum, Barbara O ^d   Reger, Greg ^e   Parsons, Thomas ^a   Difede, Jo Ann ^f   Pair, Jarrell ^a  

^a Institute for Creative Technologies ^*  (United States)

^b Virtually Better Inc   (United States)

^c NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Exposure therapy; PTSD; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

HOSPITALS; USER CENTERED DESIGN; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EXPOSURE THERAPY; MEDICAL CENTER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PTSD; STRESS CONTROL; TERRORIST ATTACKS; TRAUMATIC EVENTS; VIRTUAL SCENARIO;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HUMAN; IRAQ; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOLDIER; WAR;

HUMANS; IRAQ; MILITARY PERSONNEL; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WAR;

EID: 44249099740     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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