ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2019
Testing virtual reality-based cue-exposure software: Which cue-elicited responses best discriminate between patients with eating disorders and healthy controls?
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- Neuroscience of Virtual Reality: From Virtual Exposure to Embodied Medicine.Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking · 2019Pooled it
- Artificial Intelligence, Wearable Technologies, and Virtual Reality in Precision Nutrition and Obesity Management: A Critical Narrative Review.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Attentional Bias Modification Training Based on Virtual Reality and Eye Tracking in Anorexia Nervosa Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Exploring the effects of habituation and scent in first-person 360-degree videos on consumption behavior.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Eliciting real cravings with virtual food: Using immersive technologies to explore the effects of food stimuli in virtual reality.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Various Types of Virtual Reality-Based Therapy for Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Electroencephalographic (EEG) alterations in young women with high subclinical eating pathology levels: a quantitative EEG study.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2020Article
- Multi-method assessment of palatable food exposure in women with and without eating disorders.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2020Article
- Bringing Virtual Reality From Clinical Trials to Clinical Practice for the Treatment of Eating Disorders: An Example Using Virtual Reality Cue Exposure Therapy.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Article
- Virtual Reality Body Exposure Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa. A Case Report With Follow-Up Results.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Diagnostic, clinical, and personality correlates of food anxiety during a food exposure in patients diagnosed with an eating disorder.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2019Article
- Cue-Elicited Anxiety and Alcohol Craving as Indicators of the Validity of ALCO-VR Software: A Virtual Reality Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2019Article
- Identifying Triggers of Alcohol Craving to Develop Effective Virtual Environments for Cue Exposure Therapy.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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purposeVirtual reality (VR) technologies have been proposed as a new tool able to improve on in vivo exposure in patients with eating disorders. This study assessed the validity of a VR-based software for cue exposure therapy (CET) in people with bulimia nervosa (BN) and binge eating disorder (BED).
methodsFifty eight outpatients (33 BN and 25 BED) and 135 healthy participants were exposed to 10 craved virtual foods and a neutral cue in four experimental virtual environments (kitchen, dining room, bedroom, and cafeteria). After exposure to each VR scenario, food craving and anxiety were assessed. The frequency/severity of episodes of uncontrollable overeating was also assessed and body mass index was measured prior to the exposure.
resultsIn both groups, craving and anxiety responses when exposed to the food-related virtual environments were significantly higher than in the neutral-cue virtual environment. However, craving and anxiety levels were higher in the clinical group. Furthermore, cue-elicited anxiety was better at discriminating between clinical and healthy groups than cue-elicited craving.
conclusionsThis study provides evidence of the ability of food-related VR environments to provoke food craving and anxiety responses in BN and BED patients and highlights the need to consider both responses during treatment. The results support the use of VR-CET in the treatment of eating disorder patients characterized by binge-eating and people with high bulimic symptoms.
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