Is virtual reality always an effective stressors for exposure treatments? Some insights from a controlled trial

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Pallavicini, Federica ^a   Cipresso, Pietro ^a   Raspelli, Simona ^a   Grassi, Alessandra ^b   Serino, Silvia ^a   Vigna, Cinzia ^a   Triberti, Stefano ^a   Villamira, Marco ^c   Gaggioli, Andrea ^a   Riva, Giuseppe ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^c IULM UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Emotion elicitation; Stress; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; POST MEDIA QUESTIONNAIRE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SLATER USOH STEED PRESENCE QUESTIONNAIRE; STRESS; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIRTUAL REALITY EXPOSURE THERAPY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875493012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-13-52     Document Type: Article

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