{"id":22639,"date":"2016-02-22T19:31:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T03:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/depression-treatment-virtual-reality-a-new-therapy-to-reduce-depressive-symptoms"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:50:13","slug":"depression-treatment-virtual-reality-a-new-therapy-to-reduce-depressive-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/depression-treatment-virtual-reality-a-new-therapy-to-reduce-depressive-symptoms","title":{"rendered":"Depression Treatment: Virtual Reality A New Therapy To Reduce Depressive Symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.healthaim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1024px-CAVE_Crayoland.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People may soon use virtual reality to treat their depression and to be less critical and more compassionate towards themselves, a new study shows. A new virtual reality therapy has effectively reduced depressive symptoms of patients with some reporting significant drop in depression severity.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/bjpo.rcpsych.org\/content\/2\/1\/74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">British Journal of Psychiatry Open<\/a>, patients claim virtual reality therapy changed their response to real-life situations in which they would previously have been self-critical.<\/p>\n<p>The findings come from the analysis of the effect of the therapy to 15 depression patients, aged 23 to 61. Researchers, from University College London (UCL) and ICREA-University of Barcelona, asked the participants to wear a virtual reality headset to see from the perspective of a life-size \u201cavatar\u201d or virtual body.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthaim.com\/depression-treatment-virtual-reality-new-therapy-reduce-depressive-symptoms\/40798\">http:\/\/www.healthaim.com\/depression-treatment-virtual-realit...toms\/40798<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People may soon use virtual reality to treat their depression and to be less critical and more compassionate towards themselves, a new study shows. A new virtual reality therapy has effectively reduced depressive symptoms of patients with some reporting significant drop in depression severity. In the study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry Open, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62701,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639\/revisions\/62701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}