The growing field of digital psychiatry: current evidence and the future of apps, social media, chatbots, and virtual reality

J Torous, S Bucci, IH Bell, LV Kessing… - World …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As the COVID‐19 pandemic has largely increased the utilization of telehealth, mobile mental
health technologies–such as smartphone apps, virtual reality, chatbots, and social media …

[HTML][HTML] Future of mental health in the metaverse

SS Usmani, M Sharath, M Mehendale - General Psychiatry, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The metaverse and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were some of the hottest tech terms in 2021,
according to a Google Trends search. Our review aims to describe the metaverse and NFTs …

[HTML][HTML] Virtual and augmented reality applications in medicine: analysis of the scientific literature

AWK Yeung, A Tosevska, E Klager… - Journal of medical …, 2021 - jmir.org
Background: Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have recently become popular
research themes. However, there are no published bibliometric reports that have analyzed …

[HTML][HTML] Virtual reality in the diagnostic and therapy for mental disorders: A systematic review

A Wiebe, K Kannen, B Selaskowski, A Mehren… - Clinical Psychology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Virtual reality (VR) technologies are playing an increasingly important role in
the diagnostics and treatment of mental disorders. Objective To systematically review the …

A literature overview of virtual reality (VR) in treatment of psychiatric disorders: recent advances and limitations

MJ Park, DJ Kim, U Lee, EJ Na, HJ Jeon - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In this paper, we conduct a literature survey on various virtual reality (VR) treatments in
psychiatry. We collected 36 studies that used VR to provide clinical trials or therapies for …

Virtual reality in the assessment, understanding, and treatment of mental health disorders

D Freeman, S Reeve, A Robinson, A Ehlers… - Psychological …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Mental health problems are inseparable from the environment. With virtual reality (VR),
computer-generated interactive environments, individuals can repeatedly experience their …

Annual Research Review: Digital health interventions for children and young people with mental health problems–a systematic and meta‐review

C Hollis, CJ Falconer, JL Martin… - Journal of Child …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background Digital health interventions (DHI s), including computer‐assisted therapy,
smartphone apps and wearable technologies, are heralded as having enormous potential to …

Compassion focused therapy: A systematic review of its effectiveness and acceptability in clinical populations

C Craig, S Hiskey, A Spector - Expert review of neurotherapeutics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Compassion focused therapy (CFT) is an increasingly popular therapeutic
modality. Its holistic and integrative approach to universal human suffering means that it is …

Is clinical virtual reality ready for primetime?

A Rizzo, ST Koenig - Neuropsychology, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Since the mid-1990s, a significant scientific literature has evolved regarding the
outcomes from the use of what we now refer to as clinical virtual reality (VR). This use of VR …

Advances in the use of virtual reality to treat mental health conditions

IH Bell, R Pot-Kolder, A Rizzo, M Rus-Calafell… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a promising tool in the field of mental health. Central to
this technology are immersive environments, which enable exposure to highly controlled …