Harnessing Immersive Virtual Reality: A Comprehensive Scoping Review of its Applications in Assessing, Understanding, and Treating Eating Disorders.
Anna Flavia Di NataleSilvia Francesca Maria PizzoliGiulia BrizziDaniele Di LerniaFabio FrisoneAndrea GaggioliElisa RabarbariOsmano OasiClaudia RepettoChiara RossiElisa ScerratiDaniela VillaniGiuseppe RivaPublished in: Current psychiatry reports (2024)
IVR stands out as a transformative technology in the field of EDs, offering comprehensive benefits across diagnostic, therapeutic, and experiential domains. The IVR's ability to simulate the brain's predictive coding mechanisms provides a powerful avenue for delivering embodied, experiential interventions that can help recalibrate distorted body representations and dysfunctional affective predictive models implicated in EDs. Future research should continue to refine these applications, ensuring consistent methodologies and wider clinical trials to fully harness IVR's potential in clinical settings.
Keyphrases
- virtual reality
- clinical trial
- working memory
- resting state
- white matter
- physical activity
- bipolar disorder
- current status
- big data
- functional connectivity
- risk assessment
- randomized controlled trial
- human health
- multiple sclerosis
- machine learning
- deep learning
- artificial intelligence
- subarachnoid hemorrhage
- placebo controlled