Advanced Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Healthcare by Sheryl Brahnam, Lakhmi C Jain

By Sheryl Brahnam, Lakhmi C Jain

This quantity provides the newest examine in digital fact (VR), because it is being utilized in psychotherapy, rehabilitation, and the research of behaviour for neurological evaluate. This ebook can be of price to an individual already within the box and to those that have an interest within the improvement of VR structures for healing reasons. The contents contain:

· the newest literature studies on VR in psychotherapy, mental wellness, and rehabilitation

· VR and cognitive habit therapy

· expanding presence in VR for powerful publicity treatment and remedy of tension issues

· VR army education for dealing with wrestle pressure and combating put up stressful stress

· VR, combined truth platforms, and video games for stroke rehabilitation

· VR structures for making improvements to imaginative and prescient in kids with amblyopia

· healing play in digital environments

· therapeutic power of on-line digital worlds akin to moment Life

· Neuropsychological review utilizing digital environments

· certain money owed on how VR platforms are designed, carried out, and top evaluated

· Discussions of obstacles, difficulties, and moral issues utilizing VR in psychological and actual therapy

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By Sheryl Brahnam, Lakhmi C Jain

This quantity provides the newest examine in digital fact (VR), because it is being utilized in psychotherapy, rehabilitation, and the research of behaviour for neurological evaluate. This ebook can be of price to an individual already within the box and to those that have an interest within the improvement of VR structures for healing reasons. The contents contain:

· the newest literature studies on VR in psychotherapy, mental wellness, and rehabilitation

· VR and cognitive habit therapy

· expanding presence in VR for powerful publicity treatment and remedy of tension issues

· VR army education for dealing with wrestle pressure and combating put up stressful stress

· VR, combined truth platforms, and video games for stroke rehabilitation

· VR structures for making improvements to imaginative and prescient in kids with amblyopia

· healing play in digital environments

· therapeutic power of on-line digital worlds akin to moment Life

· Neuropsychological review utilizing digital environments

· certain money owed on how VR platforms are designed, carried out, and top evaluated

· Discussions of obstacles, difficulties, and moral issues utilizing VR in psychological and actual therapy

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Both groups improved significantly on fear reduction, assertiveness and global functioning measures from pre to post test. There was no follow up. 2 Non-generalized Social Phobia A thorough literature search for studies to include in this chapter, revealed no studies employing VR for non-generalized social phobia, other than for the treatment of public speaking anxiety. Current Trends and Future Directions for Virtual Reality Enhanced Psychotherapy 35 VRCBT has been used in therapy for public speaking anxiety in a few studies.

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However, twice as many subjects dropped out of CBT than from VRCBT, suggesting that VRCBT may be more appealing as a therapeutic technique. 7 Post Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD) While research on VR enhanced psychotherapy had primarily focused on treatment of more limited anxiety disorders, awareness of the vast numbers of combat veterans (Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq) suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD) has propelled increases in research employing VRCBT for this debilitating and often chronic disorder.

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