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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Video game technology has become so realistic that local scientists are using it to treat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and in the fight against phobias. Doctors ...

A Chicago area hospital has unveiled a new virtual reality program designed to help American military personnel with post traumatic stress disorder, or P.T.S.D. The program uses video-game type ...

XR for healthcare shows promise across patient care and medical training. (Source: Adobe AI Generated) Extended reality (XR) has seen its share of ups and downs over the past decade, but there has ...