Researchers at Bradley Hospital found that a virtual reality (VR) training program can help therapists feel more confident ...

Dick Tracey didn’t have to visit a tall building to get over his fear of heights. He put on a virtual reality headset. Through VR, he rode an elevator to a high-rise atrium that looked so real he fell ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Virtual reality first made a buzz in the late '80s and early '90s, thanks to NASA, universities and gaming companies. VR has come a long way since then, including the ways in which it is ...

A new virtual reality treatment developed in New Zealand is offering hope to people living with debilitating phobias and anxiety, using immersive technolog ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A breakthrough study presented today at the annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons found that a combination of remote cognitive behavioral therapy with in ...

Fear of spiders, open spaces, fear of heights? Virtual reality comes to the rescue as a tool to treat phobias, prove researchers from SWPS University, Gdańsk University of Technology and Jagiellonian ...

Virtual reality is one way to provide exposure therapy. Source: jeshoots/Unsplash Approximately 11 million to 66 million adults in the US may suffer from a fear or phobia of needles, or trypanophobia ...

Virtual Reality Graded Exposure Therapy (VRGET): What it is and how it works VRGET is a technology-based exposure therapy with important implications for the management of post-traumatic stress ...

Mental illnesses affect millions of lives across the US. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's statistics paint a stark picture: More than 20% of US adults have a mental illness, with a ...

Treatment with Virtual Reality appears to work very well for people with psychosis. It works faster than the current treatment with cognitive behavioral therapy and is at least as effective. This is ...

Exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy is among the least used evidence-based practices for anxiety disorders in routine care. Providers’ negative beliefs about exposure (eg, fears of harm or ...