Using Virtual Reality and Videogames for Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation: A Structured Literature Review

Games for Health Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 202-214

  Pietrzak, Eva ^a   Pullman, Stephen ^a   McGuire, Annabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 84992744462     PISSN: 2161783X     EISSN: 21617856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/g4h.2014.0013     Document Type: Review

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