ArticleJournal of clinical psychology2019
From avatars to body swapping: The use of virtual reality for assessing and treating body-size distortion in individuals with anorexia.
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- Anorexia Nervosa, Body Image Perception and Virtual Reality Therapeutic Applications: State of the Art and Operational Proposal.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Reshaping restriction: virtual embodiment modulates eating biases in anorexia nervosa.Npj mental health research · 2026Article
- Self-dialogue with age-congruent versus age-incongruent avatars in immersive virtual reality.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Predicting anorexia nervosa treatment efficacy: an explainable machine learning approach.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Does Identifying with Another Face Alter Body Image Disturbance in Women with an Eating Disorder? An Enfacement Illusion Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Therapeutic immersion: a single-subject study on virtual reality multisensory experiences for mitigating body disturbance in anorexia nervosa.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2025Article
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- Harnessing Immersive Virtual Reality: A Comprehensive Scoping Review of its Applications in Assessing, Understanding, and Treating Eating Disorders.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Article
- Embodiment of underweight and normal-weight avatars affects bodily self-representations in anorexia nervosa.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Virtual Reality as an Innovative Tool for Eating Disorders Psychological Treatment.Health psychology research · 2024Article
- The multisensory mind: a systematic review of multisensory integration processing in Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Review
- An Attentional Bias Modification Task, through Virtual Reality and Eye-Tracking Technologies, to Enhance the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- The neuroscience of body memory: Recent findings and conceptual advances.EXCLI journal · 2023Review
- From Virtual Reality to Regenerative Virtual Therapy: Some Insights from a Systematic Review Exploring Inner Body Perception in Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Body weight distortions in an auditory-driven body illusion in subclinical and clinical eating disorders.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Various Types of Virtual Reality-Based Therapy for Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Mirror, mirror, on the wall: During pandemics, how can self-perception research in people with eating disorders happen at all?Journal of eating disorders · 2022Review
- Virtual reality in the treatment of eating disorders.Clinical psychology & psychotherapy · 2021Review
- Virtual Reality for Neurorehabilitation and Cognitive Enhancement.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- AN-VR-BE. A Randomized Controlled Trial for Reducing Fear of Gaining Weight and Other Eating Disorder Symptoms in Anorexia Nervosa through Virtual Reality-Based Body Exposure.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
In the last 30 years, virtual reality (VR) has offered innovative solutions for assessing and treating body representation disturbances in anorexia nervosa (AN). The most recent and innovative trend is the exploitation of the so-called VR-based body swapping illusion. The aim of this case study was to report the use of this VR protocol within a multidisciplinary treatment of AN. A patient with a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-5 diagnosis of AN underwent an intensive multidisciplinary outpatient treatment. Three sessions of a VR-based body swapping illusion (i.e., the experimental induction of being the owner of a virtual body as a result of a visuotactile stimulation) were delivered within the treatment protocol (i.e., beginning of the treatment; end of one cycle of the treatment; 1 year of follow-up). We report the results obtained, discussing how the VR full body illusion was both able to effectively monitor changes of multisensory bodily integration and to act as a driver for these changes.
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