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 ...

The VA says two out of 10 veterans will suffer from PTSD at some point in their military career. Medication and therapy are the most common treatments, but over the last few years, virtual reality has ...

Most people are counting down the days until the COVID-19 pandemic is over. Yet, a virtual reality therapy technique would immerse front-line workers back into the pandemic’s darkest days to treat ...

In 1997, researchers from Georgia Tech linked exposure therapy with the emerging technology of virtual reality. Ten volunteers, veterans suffering from PTSD who had not responded to multiple ...

At Madigan Army Medical Center at Fort Lewis, Wash., psychologists plan to begin using virtual reality -- think immersive video games -- to treat post-traumatic stress disorder by recreating the ...

The Veterans Administration estimates 17 U.S. veterans die by suicide each day on average. Behind many of those deaths is PTSD. Now, there's growing optimism about how technology is improving ...

Using components from a popular video game, researchers have created a "virtual" world that simulates the sources of combat stress for use in... Virtual Reality Therapy for Combat Stress A new, ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- For those who put their lives on the line to serve our country, it can come with serious consequences and entering back into civilian life can be tough. "It's not just a cultural ...

When Stephen Smith started NOCD 11 years ago, he wanted to build an app for people like himself—one of the 8.2 million Americans with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)—to track their symptoms and ...

Spending long periods of time in space can be a psychologically demanding experience, but a new virtual reality system could give NASA astronauts a welcome escape. Veterans suffering from ...