Playmancer project: A serious videogame as an additional therapy tool for eating and impulse control disorders

Annual Review of CyberTherapy and Telemedicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 163-166

  Jiménez Murcia, Susana ^a   Fernández Aranda, Fernando ^a   Kalapanidas, Elias ^b   Konstantas, Dimitri ^c   Ganchev, Todor ^d   Kocsis, Otilia ^d   Lam, Tony ^e   Santamaría, Juan J ^a   Raguin, Thierry ^e   Breiteneder, Christian ^f   Kaufmann, Hannes ^f   Davarakis, Costas ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b Systema Technologies   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^e NetUnion Sarl   (Switzerland)

^f VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cognitive behavioral therapy; Mental disorders; Serious games

Indexed keywords

BULIMIA; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING DISORDER; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RECREATION; REVIEW; SELF CONTROL; TREATMENT INDICATION; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; VIDEO GAME;

DISRUPTIVE, IMPULSE CONTROL, AND CONDUCT DISORDERS; HUMANS; VIDEO GAMES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPIES; CONTROL STRATEGIES; EUROPEAN INITIATIVES; IMPULSE CONTROL; MENTAL DISORDERS; VIDEO GAME;

SERIOUS GAMES;

EID: 71749106760     PISSN: 15548716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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