Brave new worlds - Review and update on virtual reality assessment and treatment in psychosis

Schizophrenia Bulletin

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1194-1197

  Veling, Wim ^a,b   Moritz, Steffen ^c   Van Der Gaag, Mark ^d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d PARNASSIA PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DELUSION; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; PARANOIA; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VIRTUAL REALITY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; VIRTUAL REALITY EXPOSURE THERAPY;

HUMANS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIRTUAL REALITY EXPOSURE THERAPY;

EID: 84913533701     PISSN: 05867614     EISSN: 17451701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbu125     Document Type: Article

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