VR PTSD exposure therapy results with active duty OIF/OEF combatants

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 142, Issue , 2009, Pages 277-282

  Rizzo, Albert A ^a   Difede, JoAnn ^b   Rothbaum, Barbara O ^c   Johnston, Scott ^d   McLay, Robert N ^d   Reger, Greg ^e   Gahm, Greg ^e   Parsons, Thomas ^a   Graap, Ken ^f   Pair, Jarrell ^a  

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

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^e MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f Virtually Better Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Exposure therapy; PTSD; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; DIAGNOSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; SOFTWARE TESTING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLINICAL OUTCOME; EXPOSURE THERAPY; POST TREATMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PTSD; TERRORIST ATTACKS; TRAUMATIC EVENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY EXPOSURE THERAPIES;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOLDIER;

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

EID: 67549127810     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-58603-964-6-277     Document Type: Conference Paper

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