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Virtual reality useful in addressing social determinants of health
Virtual Reality (VR) is not just fun and games any more. Beyond entertainment, applications extend to military training, business and education.
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Virtual reality can improve performance during exercise
Using virtual reality (VR) headsets while exercising can reduce pain and increase how long someone can sustain an activity, according to new research from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts.
Oct 1, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Virtual reality burger game tests the appetite for playing by the rules
Can you play by the rules and make lots of money or is it worth taking risks? That's the question researchers at the University of Nottingham are asking with a unique virtual reality game.
Jul 2, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Virtual reality treatment could help military veterans suffering with post-traumatic stress disorder
Virtual reality technology could be used to help military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a new study concludes.
Oct 1, 2019
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Neuroscience
Virtual reality reduces phantom pain in paraplegics
Virtual reality reduces phantom body pain in paraplegics and creates the illusion that they can feel their paralyzed legs being touched again. The results could one day translate into therapies to reduce chronic pain in paraplegics.
Oct 30, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
In therapy with avatars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Combating phobias and psychotic disorders using virtual technology. This is what the work of TU Delft researcher Willem-Paul Brinkman involves. In the latest edition of Delft Outlook, TU Delft?s science magazine, ...
Apr 29, 2011
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Medical research
Could a 'brain-computer interface' one day cure chronic pain?
Researchers at the University of East Anglia are launching a new project to see whether virtual reality could help with the treatment of chronic pain.
May 24, 2021
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Neuroscience
Brain can navigate based solely on smells
Northwestern University researchers have developed a new "smell virtual landscape" that enables the study of how smells engage the brain's navigation system. The work demonstrates, for the first time, that the mammalian brain ...
Feb 26, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The dying art of conversation – has technology killed our ability to talk face-to-face?
What with Facetime, Skype, Whatsapp and Snapchat, for many people, face-to-face conversation is used less and less often.
Mar 29, 2019
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Virtual reality makes empathy easier
Virtual reality activates brain networks that increase your ability to identify with other people, according to new research published in eNeuro. The technology could become a tool in the treatment of violent offenders to ...
Apr 20, 2020
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