The latest form of cognitive behavioral therapy, virtual reality therapy has been developing in
France since 2012, in both university hospitals and private practices. Patients receiving this …

Virtual reality therapy for mental health complaints has been invented during the last two
decades of the past century and has undergone a rather rapid development since …

Virtual reality (VR) has recently emerged as a potentially effective way to provide general
and specialty health care services, and appears poised to enter mainstream psychotherapy …

In recent years the development of new virtual environments has been qualitatively high and
fast at the same time, but the dissemination of virtual reality (VR) in clinical practice is still …

Background. Virtual reality (VR) has been effectively used in the treatment of many mental
health disorders. However, significant gaps exist in the literature. There is no treatment …

Virtual reality involves the creation of an interactive three-dimensional virtual world which
the user can navigate. This technology is proposed for anxiety disorders as an alternative to …

Virtual reality (VR) is no longer a fantasy or a novelty to be used for pure entertainment. It is
a technology that has, over the past three decades, taken hold and enriched multiple areas …

Virtual reality is a media allowing users to interact in real time with computerized virtual
environments. The application of this immersive technology to cognitive behavioral …

This review describes the growing research in virtual reality (VR) for healthcare purposes. In
recent years, the technological improvements have expanded the possibility of investigating …

This thesis contains several chapters written as manuscripts for publication. These chapters
have their own abstract, introduction, methods, results and discussion sections. Moreover …