ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021
Virtual Body Ownership Illusions for Mental Health: A Narrative Review.
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41 citing papers in PubMed, 89 citations in OpenAlex.
- Influence of body visualization in VR during the execution of motoric tasks in different age groups.PloS one · 2022Trial
- A Multimodal Therapist-Supervised Robotic Gait-Training Platform with Phase-Synchronized Infrared Thermal Biofeedback: A Concept-Level Technical and Translational Healthcare Framework.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Exploring Virtual Reality for Body Image Assessment and Psychological Interventions in Individuals With Obesity: a Comprehensive Review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Review
- XR body illusion for managing pain in fibromyalgia: examining optimal duration.Virtual reality · 2026Article
- Virtual Meets Reality: A Psychodynamic Perspective on Immersive Technologies.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2025Article
- MetaRehabVerse: The Great Opportunity to Put the Person's Functioning and Participation at the Center of Healthcare.Neurorehabilitation and neural repair · 2025Review
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- A Bibliometric Study of the Evidence About Applying Virtual Reality in Mental Health Care.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Review
- Harnessing Immersive Virtual Reality: A Comprehensive Scoping Review of its Applications in Assessing, Understanding, and Treating Eating Disorders.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Article
- Novel online enfacement illusion for investigating self-perception in mental disorders: an experimental study protocol.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Virtual Exercise in Medicine: A Proof of Concept in a Healthy Population.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- Exploratory analysis of the effectiveness of virtual reality in cardiovascular rehabilitation.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Mental health providers are inexperienced but interested in telehealth-based virtual reality therapy: survey study.Frontiers in virtual reality · 2024Article
- Women show enhanced proprioceptive target estimation through visual-proprioceptive conflict resolution.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Virtual reality in functional neurological disorder: a theoretical framework and research agenda for use in the real world.BMJ neurology open · 2024Review
- Editorial "Embodiment in the Metaverse: How Real and Virtual Bodies in Interaction Affect Cognition".Journal of cognition · 2024Article
- Counseling Psychological Understanding and Considerations of the Metaverse: A Theoretical Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Role of Immersive Virtual Reality in Motor Behaviour Decision-Making in Chronic Pain Patients.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Exploring multisensory integration of non-naturalistic sounds on body perception in young females with eating disorders symptomatology: a study protocol.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- The neuroscience of body memory: Recent findings and conceptual advances.EXCLI journal · 2023Review
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Over the last 20 years, virtual reality (VR) has been widely used to promote mental health in populations presenting different clinical conditions. Mental health does not refer only to the absence of psychiatric disorders but to the absence of a wide range of clinical conditions that influence people's general and social well-being such as chronic pain, neurological disorders that lead to motor o perceptual impairments, psychological disorders that alter behaviour and social cognition, or physical conditions like eating disorders or present in amputees. It is known that an accurate perception of oneself and of the surrounding environment are both key elements to enjoy mental health and well-being, and that both can be distorted in patients suffering from the clinical conditions mentioned above. In the past few years, multiple studies have shown the effectiveness of VR to modulate such perceptual distortions of oneself and of the surrounding environment through virtual body ownership illusions. This narrative review aims to review clinical studies that have explored the manipulation of embodied virtual bodies in VR for improving mental health, and to discuss the current state of the art and the challenges for future research in the context of clinical care.
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