Virtual reality in anxiety disorders: the past and the future

A Gorini, G Riva - Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
One of the most effective treatments of anxiety is exposure therapy: a person is exposed to
specific feared situations or objects that trigger anxiety. This exposure process may be done …

Virtual reality therapy: An effective treatment for psychological disorders

MM North, SM North, JR Coble - Handbook of virtual …, 2002 - taylorfrancis.com
Virtual environment (VE) technology is currently being used to treat phobias and other
psychological disorders. This chapter reports a brief collection of pioneering and current …

Virtual reality treatment of claustrophobia: a case report

C Botella, RM Baños, C Perpiñá, H Villa… - Behaviour research and …, 1998 - Elsevier
The efficacy of a treatment for claustrophobia using only Virtual Reality (VR) exposure was
examined. The subject was a 43-year-old female who suffered from clinically significant …

Virtual reality therapy: an effective treatment for the fear of public speaking

MM North, SM North, JR Coble - International Journal of Virtual Reality, 1998 - ijvr.eu
The major goal of this research was to investigate the efficacy of virtual reality therapy (VRT)
in the treatment of the fear of public speaking. After an extensive two-stage screening …

Virtual reality in the treatment of claustrophobic fear: A controlled, multiple-baseline design

C Botella, RM Baños, H Villa, C Perpiñá… - Behavior therapy, 2000 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of virtual reality (VR) exposure in
the treatment of claustrophobic fear. We evaluated the intervention following a controlled …

Virtual reality and psychotherapy

C Botella, S Quero, RM Baños, C Perpiñá… - …, 2004 - ebooks.iospress.nl
Virtual Reality (VR) is a new technology consisting on a graphic environment in which the
user, not only has the feeling of being physically present in a virtual world, but he/she can …

Effectiveness of virtual environment desensitization in the treatment of agoraphobia

MM North, SM North, JR Coble - Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual …, 1996 - direct.mit.edu
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of virtual environment
technology in the area of psychotherapy. In particular, this study investigated the …

Virtual reality therapy: an effective treatment for phobias

MM North, SM North, JK Coble - Virtual environments in clinical …, 1998 - ebooks.iospress.nl
Behavioral therapy techniques for treating phobias often includes graded exposure of the
patient to anxiety-producing stimuli (Systematic Desensitization). However, in utilizing …

Virtual reality treatment of flying phobia

RM Baños, C Botella, C Perpiñá… - IEEE Transactions …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flying phobia (FP) might become a very incapacitating and disturbing problem in a person's
social, working, and private areas. Psychological interventions based on exposure therapy …

[PDF][PDF] Aplicaciones de la realidad virtual en psicología clínica

JG Maldonado - Aula médica psiquiátrica, 2002 - ub.edu
La informática, como otras disciplinas tecnológicas, avanza a gran velocidad. Cada año se
dobla la velocidad de los procesadores y la capacidad de las memorias. Recursos gráficos …