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A virtual environment for the treatment of chronic combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder
L F Hodges1, B O Rothbaum, R Alarcon
1GVU Center, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0280, USA. Hodges@cc.gatech.edu
Abstract:
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the most disabling psychopathological conditions affecting the veteran population. An estimated 830,000 U.S. veterans currently have symptoms of chronic combat-related PTSD. No therapeutic approach has proven to be consistently effective in the management of combat-related PTSD. Behavior therapies with an exposure element have proven more effective than most other types of treatment, but a significant number of patients do not seem to benefit from them, possibly because of difficulties imagining, visualizing, or describing their traumatic experiences. In this article, we describe Virtual Vietnam, a set of two virtual environments we have developed for the treatment of combat-related PTSD, and its use as one component of a comprehensive treatment program.
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