ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021
Clinical Relevance of Immersive Virtual Reality in the Assessment and Treatment of Addictive Disorders: A Systematic Review and Future Perspective.
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. It is linked to trial NCT05841017 (Effectiveness of the Immersive Virtual Reality in the Psychological Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), which is not on this map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Effectiveness of the Immersive Virtual Reality in the Psychological Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The efficacy of conventional and technology assisted cue exposure therapy for treating substance use disorders: a qualitative systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 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-Based Cue Exposure and Aversion Therapy for Alcohol Dependence: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Addiction biology · 2026Trial
- The Effect of Aversive Therapy Using Virtual Reality on Craving, Depression, and Self-Efficacy: A Pilot Study in Patients Under Methadone Maintenance Treatment.Brain and behavior · 2025Trial
- Are virtual reality (VR) interventions for substance use disorders designed for implementation? A rapid review of platform characteristics and clinical fit.Research square · 2026Article
- Multimodal Psychophysiological Assessment of Craving in Patients With Alcohol Dependence During Virtual Reality Cue Exposure: Exploratory Single-Arm Clinical Study.JMIR serious games · 2026Article
- Immersive Virtual Reality-Supported Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Patients With Mild to Borderline Intellectual Disabilities and Substance Use Disorders: Two Exploratory Studies.JMIR XR and spatial computing · 2026Article
- Using games to identify adolescents at risk for substance misuse-a proof-of-concept study.Frontiers in health services · 2026Article
- Virtual reality interventions in the assessment and treatment of alcohol use disorder - a systematic scoping review on methodology.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of a virtual reality-based cognitive training program on memory, executive functioning, and processing speed in individuals with substance use disorders: a quasi-experimental study.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Craving induction through virtual reality cue-exposure for patients with alcohol dependence in rehabilitation treatment.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Towards virtual reality exposure therapy for cocaine use disorder: A feasibility study of inducing cocaine craving through virtual reality.Addictive behaviors reports · 2024Article
- Gambling and virtual reality: unraveling the illusion of near-misses effect.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Virtual reality-assisted cognitive behavioral therapy for patients with alcohol use disorder: a randomized feasibility study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- An explorative single-arm clinical study to assess craving in patients with alcohol use disorder using Virtual Reality exposure (CRAVE)-study protocol.BMC psychiatry · 2023Observational
- Development of an Alcohol Refusal Training in Immersive Virtual Reality for Patients With Mild to Borderline Intellectual Disability and Alcohol Use Disorder: Cocreation With Experts in Addiction Care.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
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- Immersive Virtual Reality Avatars for Embodiment Illusions in People With Mild to Borderline Intellectual Disability: User-Centered Development and Feasibility Study.JMIR serious games · 2022Article
- Virtual Reality to Support Inpatient Addiction Treatment: Patients Are Ready, What About Therapists? A Feasibility Study.International journal of mental health and addiction · 2022Article
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10 authors.
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Abstract
(1) Background: Virtual reality (VR) has been investigated in a variety of psychiatric disorders, including addictive disorders (ADs); (2) Objective: This systematic review evaluates the current evidence of immersive VR (using head-mounted displays) in the clinical assessment and treatment of ADs; (3) Method: PubMed and PsycINFO were queried for publications up to November 2020; (4) Results: We screened 4519 titles, 114 abstracts and 85 full-texts, and analyzed 36 articles regarding the clinical assessment (i.e., diagnostic and prognostic value;
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