scholarly journals VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATION AS THERAPY FOR POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD)

2019 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 24-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Smys S ◽  
Jennifer S. Raj ◽  
Krishna raj N.
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
Virtual Reality Simulation ◽  
Motion Platform ◽  
Person Experience

Virtual reality (VR) technology has the potential to make a person experience anything, anytime, anywhere. It has the ability to influence the human brain that it assumes to be present somewhere that it is really not. In this paper, we exploit this application of the VR technology to simulate virtual environments that can help with PTSD therapy for people affected by trauma due to accident, war, sexual abuse and so on. Several sensors are used to gather the user movements on a motion platform and replicate it in the virtual environment with the help of a Raspberry Pi board and Unreal Developer’s kit. It has flexible interfaces that the clinician can modify the virtual environment according to the requirement for the patient.

BusWorld: An Analog Pilot Test of a Virtual Environment Designed to Treat Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Originating from a Terrorist Suicide Bomb Attack

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 775-777 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Josman ◽  
Ayelet Reisberg ◽  
Patrice L. Weiss ◽  
Azucena Garcia-Palacios ◽  
Hunter G. Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Pilot Test ◽  
Bomb Attack

Virtual Reality Exposure for Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 199-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Ready ◽  
Stacey Pollack ◽  
Barbara Olasov Rothbaum ◽  
Renato D. Alarcon
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Virtual Reality Exposure

Me and My VE, Part 5: Applications in Human Factors Research and Practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 2051-2055
Author(s):  
Randall Spain ◽  
Benjamin Goldberg ◽  
Jeffrey Hansberger ◽  
Tami Griffith ◽  
Jeremy Flynn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Human Factors Research

Recent advances in technology have made virtual environments, virtual reality, augmented reality, and simulations more affordable and accessible to researchers, companies, and the general public, which has led to many novel use cases and applications. A key objective of human factors research and practice is determining how these technology-rich applications can be designed and applied to improve human performance across a variety of contexts. This session will demonstrate some of the distinct and diverse uses of virtual environments and mixed reality environments in an alternative format. The session will begin with each demonstrator providing a brief overview of their virtual environment (VE) and a description of how it has been used to address a particular problem or research need. Following the description portion of the session, each VE will be set-up at a demonstration station in the room, and session attendees will be encouraged to directly interact with the virtual environment and ask demonstrators questions about their research and inquire about the effectiveness of using VE for research, training, and evaluation purposes. The overall objective of this alternative session is to increase the awareness of how human factors professionals use VE technologies and increase the awareness of the capabilities and limitations of VE in supporting the work of HF professionals.

scholarly journals Virtual Reality and Assistive Technologies: A Survey

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-57
Author(s):  
Shamima Yasmin
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Sensory Substitution ◽  
Body Movements ◽  
Rehabilitation Therapy ◽  
Extensive Survey ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Mental Exercise

This paper conducts an extensive survey on existing Virtual Reality (VR)-based rehabilitation approaches in the context of different types of impairments: mobility, cognitive, and visual. Some VR-based assistive technologies involve repetitions of body movements, some require persistent mental exercise, while some work as sensory substitution systems. A multi-modal VR-based environment can incorporate a number of senses, (i.e., visual, auditory, or haptic) into the system and can be an immense source of motivation and engagement in comparison with traditional rehabilitation therapy. This survey categorizes virtual environments on the basis of different available modalities. Each category is again subcategorized by the types of impairments while introducing available devices and interfaces. Before concluding the survey, the paper also briefly focuses on some issues with existing VR-based approaches that need to be optimized to exploit the utmost benefit of virtual environment-based rehabilitation systems .

scholarly journals Biomarkers in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Overview and Implications for Future Research

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 43-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrike Schmidt ◽  
Sebastian F. Kaltwasser ◽  
Carsten T. Wotjak
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Clinical Use ◽  
Current State ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
State Of Research

PTSD can develop in the aftermath of traumatic incidents like combat, sexual abuse, or life threatening accidents. Unfortunately, there are still no biomarkers for this debilitating anxiety disorder in clinical use. Anyhow, there are numerous studies describing potential PTSD biomarkers, some of which might progress to the point of practical use in the future. Here, we outline and comment on some of the most prominent findings on potential imaging, psychological, endocrine, and molecular PTSD biomarkers and classify them into risk, disease, and therapy markers. Since for most of these potential PTSD markers a causal role in PTSD has been demonstrated or at least postulated, this review also gives an overview on the current state of research on PTSD pathobiology.

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