ReviewHeliyon2022
The promise of the metaverse in mental health: the new era of MEDverse.
Review in Heliyon, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 26 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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Who cites it
26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 117 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of exercise interventions on gross motor skills in children with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Analyzing metaverse-based digital therapies, their effectiveness, and potential risks in mental healthcare.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- Virtual Nature, Metaverse, and NAD⁺: A Narrative Review for Health Planning and Healthy Ageing.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Understanding How Discourse Themes in an Online Mental Health Community on Twitter/X Drive Varied Population-Specific Empowerment Processes in Alignment With Global Standards: A Qualitative Analysis of #BipolarClub.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Optimizing perimenopausal mental health by integrating precision biomarkers, digital health interventions, and psychosocial care.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Predicting anorexia nervosa treatment efficacy: an explainable machine learning approach.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- MetaRehabVerse: The Great Opportunity to Put the Person's Functioning and Participation at the Center of Healthcare.Neurorehabilitation and neural repair · 2025Review
- Metaverse for mental health disorders: Opportunities and challenges.World journal of clinical cases · 2025Article
- Evaluating the Potential of Metaverse to Elicit Therapy-Related Emotions Among Individuals With Depression: Controlled Pilot Study of Cognitive and Emotional Responses.JMIR XR and spatial computing · 2025Article
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- How Does an Online Mental Health Community on Twitter Empower Diverse Population Levels and Groups? A Qualitative Analysis of #BipolarClub.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Therapeutic effect of the metaverse on mental health.World journal of clinical cases · 2024Article
- Metaverse in Mental Health: The Beginning of a Long History.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Review
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- From "online brains" to "online lives": understanding the individualized impacts of Internet use across psychological, cognitive and social dimensions.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2024Article
- Applications of the metaverse in medicine and healthcare.Advances in laboratory medicine · 2024Review
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- Factors affecting metaverse adoption in education: A systematic review, adoption framework, and future research agenda.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Healthcare in the Dynamism of Metaverse After COVID-19: A Systematic Review of Literature.Cureus · 2024Review
- Searching for the Metaverse: Neuroscience of Physical and Digital Communities.Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Since Mark Zuckerberg's announcement about the development of new three-dimensional virtual worlds for social communication, a great debate has been raised about the promise of such a technology. The metaverse, a term formed by combining meta and universe, could open a new era in mental health, mainly in psychological disorders, where the creation of a full-body illusion
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