{"id":110,"date":"2014-01-27T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/?p=110"},"modified":"2014-01-27T23:22:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T23:22:34","slug":"article-sad-virtual-reality-therapy-can-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/2014\/01\/27\/article-sad-virtual-reality-therapy-can-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Article: \u201cSAD? Virtual Reality therapy can help\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article: \u201cSAD? Virtual Reality therapy can help\u201d<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com\/2007-06-27\/news\/27675858_1_phobia-classroom-condition<\/p>\n<p>Video: \u201cA virtual reality dialogue system for the treatment of social phobia\u201d<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jw5wMqzKp1I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This article interested me particularly because it addresses virtual reality as a creative way to treat health-related conditions. US-based company, Illumenta, introduced a Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) system in which it creates situations that are most feared, mostly geared towards individuals diagnosed with the medical condition SAD-Social Anxiety Disorder,\u00a0 Say, for instance, you have a fear of public speaking\u2014VRET simulates a situation in which you are giving a speech to a group of people, to essentially\u00a0 practice your fear. With use over a period of time, VRET hopes to gradually treat any type of phobia, fear, or addiction.\u201c&#8221;We expose them repeatedly to stimulus they fear. Maybe they will have to speak in an auditorium or face interview sessions or be in a conference room&#8221; says Dr Mehta. In a world where pharmaceutical companies try to diagnose every symptom with medication, it excites me to see other mediums of treatment being used-especially with technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article: \u201cSAD? Virtual Reality therapy can help\u201d http:\/\/articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com\/2007-06-27\/news\/27675858_1_phobia-classroom-condition Video: \u201cA virtual reality dialogue system for the treatment of social phobia\u201d This article interested me particularly because it addresses virtual reality as a creative way to treat health-related conditions. US-based company, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/2014\/01\/27\/article-sad-virtual-reality-therapy-can-help\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}