Psychology & Psychiatry

Can virtual reality help treat anxiety in older people?

Up to 25% of people aged 65 and over experience varying degrees of anxiety. Although cognitive behavioural therapy is a preferred treatment approach, it has limitations as people age (decreased mobility and visualization ...

Medical research

Videogames improve quality of life during dialysis

Physical Therapy professor of the CEU UCH Eva Segura and Nephrology doctor at Manises hospital Alicia García Testal, have been the only Spaniards invited to publish their conclusions in a paper titled "Intradialytic virtual ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Magnetic fields to alleviate anxiety

It is possible to unlearn fears. And this works even better when a specific region of the brain has previously been stimulated magnetically. This has been shown by researchers from the Würzburg University Hospital in a new ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Bodies transparentized in a virtual environment

A Ph.D. candidate, Ryota Kondo, and Professor Michiteru Kitazaki at Toyohashi University of Technology, and collaborators have found that the visual-motor synchronicity of the hands and feet can induce a sense of illusory ...

Gastroenterology

Can virtual reality help seniors? Study hopes to find out

Terry Colli and three other residents of the John Knox Village senior community got a trip via computer to the International Space Station in the kickoff to a Stanford University study on whether virtual reality can improve ...

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