Analysis of virtual reality contribution to treatment of patients with post-traumatic stress disorder

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Telecommunications, ConTEL 2003

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 729-731

  Mrdeža, Sanja ^a   Pandžić, Igor S ^b  

^a Siemens dd   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Post traumatic stress disorder; Virtual environment; Virtual reality exposure

Indexed keywords

VIRTUAL REALITY;

HEALING PROCESS; MENTAL HEALTH; POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDERS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; TRAUMATIC EVENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY EXPOSURE THERAPIES; VR APPLICATIONS; VR TECHNOLOGY;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

EID: 48049119713     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CONTEL.2003.176995     Document Type: Conference Paper

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