SynthesisSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2016
Using virtual reality to investigate psychological processes and mechanisms associated with the onset and maintenance of psychosis: a systematic review.
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- A prospective study of VR-assessed state paranoia and anxiety suggests threat-related developmental pathways in adolescence.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
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- Interpersonal sensitivity as a central hub: a network analysis of childhood trauma and psychological symptoms in adolescents with major depressive disorder.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Better Safe Than Sorry? Exploratory Associations Between Fear-Learning Processes and Later Paranoia in Threat-Exposed Adolescents in Standardized Virtual Reality Environments.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2026Article
- The role of mindfulness training supported by virtual reality in the nonpharmacological treatment of schizophrenia-research design.Annals of general psychiatry · 2025Article
- Immersive virtual reality as a novel approach to investigate the association between adverse events and adolescent paranoid ideation.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- Establishing Medical Extended Reality Labs Within Healthcare Institutions: A Nationwide Perspective.Journal of medical extended reality · 2025Article
- Virtual Humans in Virtual Reality Mental Health Research: Systematic Review.JMIR XR and spatial computing · 2025Review
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- Using virtual reality to assess gesture performance deficits in schizophrenia patients.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Efficacy of immersive extended reality (XR) interventions on different symptom domains of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. A systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Digital Health Interventions for Delivery of Mental Health Care: Systematic and Comprehensive Meta-Review.JMIR mental health · 2022Review
- Feasibility and Efficacy of Virtual Reality Interventions to Improve Psychosocial Functioning in Psychosis: Systematic Review.JMIR mental health · 2022Review
- Can emerging technologies be effective in improving alexithymia due to brain lesion?: Lessons from a case report.Medicine · 2020Article
- Virtual reality as a clinical tool in mental health research and practice .Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2020Review
- Using Virtual Reality as a Tool in the Rehabilitation of Movement Abnormalities in Schizophrenia.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- IMHOTEP: virtual reality framework for surgical applications.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2018Article
- Interpersonal sensitivity and persistent attenuated psychotic symptoms in adolescence.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2018Article
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Abstract
purposeIn the last decade researchers have embraced virtual reality to explore the psychological processes and mechanisms that are involved in the onset and maintenance of psychosis. A systematic review was conducted to synthesise the evidence of using virtual reality to investigate these mechanisms.
methodsWeb of Science, PsycINFO, Embase, and Medline were searched. Reference lists of collected papers were also visually inspected to locate any relevant cited journal articles. In total 6001 articles were potentially eligible for inclusion; of these, 16 studies were included in the review.
resultsThe review identified studies investigating the effect of interpersonal sensitivity, childhood bullying victimisation, physical assault, perceived ethnic discrimination, social defeat, population density and ethnic density on the real-time appraisal of VR social situations. Further studies demonstrated the potential of VR to investigate paranoid ideation, anomalous experiences, self-confidence, self-comparison, physiological activation and behavioural response.
conclusionsThe reviewed studies suggest that VR can be used to investigate psychological processes and mechanisms associated with psychosis. Implications for further experimental research, as well as for assessment and clinical practise are discussed. The present review has been registered in the PROSPERO register: CRD42016038085.
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