“Researchers in London are using virtual reality to help better understand and treat psychological disorders.
Dr Lucia Valmaggia a psychological researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London, is using virtual reality technology to help treat schizophrenia, psychosis, anxiety and bipolar disorder.
By wearing a virtual reality headset patients can be placed in virtual environments that have the potential to cause them stress, anxiety or paranoia.
The technology allows for the patient to be put in a space which may act as a trigger, like public transportation or confined and crowded spaces, but in a controlled environment.”
By Alice Milliken at Newsweek
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