ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021
Is Virtual Reality Cue Exposure a Promising Adjunctive Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder?
Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Novel Insights into Addiction Management: A Meta-Analysis on Intervention for Relapse Prevention.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Pooled it
- Applications of Immersive Virtual Reality for Illicit Substance Use: A Systematic Review.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2024Pooled it
- Virtual Reality in Prevention and Treatment of Substance-Related Disorders: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Clinical psychology & psychotherapyPooled it
- Virtual reality-based cue exposure therapy reduces psychological craving in men with methamphetamine use disorder: a randomized controlled trial.Translational psychiatry · 2025Trial
- Assessing usability and acceptability of a VR digital therapeutic for treatment of substance use disorders.Journal of social work practice in the addictions · 2026Article
- Virtualizing Alcohol Use Disorder Therapy: A Systematic Scoping Review.Advances in therapy · 2026Article
- Development and validation of an open-source virtual reality environment for alcohol use disorder and determinants of cue-induced craving among Indian participants.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- The Antimicrobial Activity of Combination of Vitamin D3 and Omega-3 against Pathogenic Microorganisms.Combinatorial chemistry & high throughput screening · 2025Article
- Video Record Viewing of Self in Delirium Tremens (VVSDT) and its Effect on Abstinence among Patients with Alcohol Dependence Syndrome.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2024Article
- Attentional Bias, Pupillometry, and Spontaneous Blink Rate: Eye Characteristic Assessment Within a Translatable Nicotine Cue Virtual Reality Paradigm.JMIR serious games · 2024Article
- The Feasibility and Usability of an Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Conversational Agent in Virtual Reality for Patients with Alcohol-Associated Cirrhosis: A Multi-Methods Study.Journal of medical extended reality · 2024Article
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- Acceptability, feasibility, and user satisfaction of a virtual reality relaxation intervention in a psychiatric outpatient setting during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- The Use of Virtual Reality Technology in the Treatment of Psychopathological Disorders.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Virtual reality intervention effects on future self-continuity and delayed reward preference in substance use disorder recovery: pilot study results.Discover mental health · 2022Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
This narrative review presents recent developments in virtual reality (VR)-based interventions for alcohol use disorders (AUDs). The latest advances in mental healthcare hail an imminent cyber revolution, ushering in novel treatment options, with immersive virtual technology at the very forefront of expected change. With an aim to (a) provide a background on VR use in mental healthcare of AUD patients, (b) summarize existing evidence on conventional approaches to the treatment of AUDs and a trending paradigm shift towards VR applications in their management, and (c) describe key issues and future directions in research on craving assessment and VR cue-induced therapy in AUDs, a search for experimental and meta-analytic evidence was performed in six databases: PubMed and EBSCO (Medline, ERIC, PsychINFO, Academic Search Ultimate, and Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition). Pooled results were screened for eligibility, and relevant papers were selected for inclusion. The analysis revealed VR's promising effects in the treatment of AUDs. Its remarkable potential to simulate cues underlying subsequent addictive behaviors makes its application in the assessment and treatment of AUDs an attractive alternative to researchers and clinicians alike. Nevertheless, more evidence is needed before virtual reality cue exposure therapy (VR-CET) can become a clinical standard of care.
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