ReviewBrain sciences2023
Application of Immersive Virtual Reality for Assessment and Intervention in Psychosis: A Systematic Review.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- The use of virtual reality in forensic-correctional psychiatric settings: A systematic review.Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2026Pooled it
- Biosensor-Integrated Virtual Reality for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Psychosis: A Systematic Review of a New Therapeutic Frontier.Biosensors · 2026Pooled it
- Effectiveness of virtual reality therapy in the treatment of anxiety disorders in adolescents and adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Virtual reality intervention for visual perception in schizophrenia-a single blind pilot randomized controlled trial.BMC psychiatry · 2025Trial
- Digital Psychiatry with Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality: Recent Advances and Limitations.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Review
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- Insights from fifteen years of real-world development, testing and implementation of youth digital mental health interventions.Internet interventions · 2025Review
- Considering Theory-Based Gamification in the Co-Design and Development of a Virtual Reality Cognitive Remediation Intervention for Depression (bWell-D): Mixed Methods Study.JMIR serious games · 2025Article
- Efficacy and Safety of Virtual Reality-Based Versus Traditional Emotion-to-Emotion Therapy for Treatment of Hwa-Byung: A Protocol for a Single-Center, Randomized, Assessor-Blind, Parallel-Group Clinical Trial.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Clinical Feasibility of Applying Immersive Virtual Reality during Robot-Assisted Gait Training for Individuals with Neurological Diseases: A Pilot Study.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Investigating the acceptability and validity of a novel VR paradigm that simulates auditory hallucinations.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a safe and non-invasive technology for the assessment of psychotic symptoms, social and cognitive impairments, and psychosocial intervention in improving outcomes in psychosis. This study systematically reviewed the current state of evidence in applying semi- and fully immersive VR for assessing and treating patients with psychosis. A systematic review was conducted adhering to the PRISMA statement and was conducted in Embase, PsycINFO, and PubMed databases for articles published between January 2013 and April 2022, which identified 28 eligible studies, including 12 for assessment and 16 for intervention. In the assessment studies, not all VR tasks could distinguish the differences between patients and healthy controls regarding their physiological responses, paranoid ideation, and certain aspects of cognitive functioning such as memory bias on the object tasks. Comparatively, VR-based interventions are more promising, especially for improving cognitive impairments, social skills, agoraphobic avoidance, negative and positive affective states, auditory verbal hallucination, paranoid ideation and persecutory delusions, and other psychiatric symptoms in patients. We conclude that more rigorous studies are needed to confirm treatment effectiveness and to understand the underlying mechanism of VR-based intervention for psychotic disorders. Future studies should also improve the reliability and validity of VR-based assessments for psychotic disorders.
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