From virtual reality to interreality in the treatment of anxiety disorders

Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-43

  Repetto, Claudia ^a   Riva, Giuseppe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COPING BEHAVIOR; COST CONTROL; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; PANIC; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHOBIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; PUBLIC SPEAKING; SOCIAL PHOBIA; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84866355129     PISSN: 17582008     EISSN: 17582016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/npy.11.5     Document Type: Article

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