{"id":22640,"date":"2016-02-22T19:31:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T03:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/virtual-reality-treatment-helps-depression-patients-in-study"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:10:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:10:13","slug":"virtual-reality-treatment-helps-depression-patients-in-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/virtual-reality-treatment-helps-depression-patients-in-study","title":{"rendered":"Virtual reality treatment helps depression patients in study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/virtual-reality-treatment-helps-depression-patients-in-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a concept; \u201ccould VR be used to rehabilitate criminals to experience through VR what their victims have experienced?\u201d I do know in the recent 20 yrs a part of rehabilitation has included the criminal facing their victims so that the criminal develops a new level of empathy. However, could VR be a better solution? And, should it be?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>LONDON, Feb. 15 (UPI) \u2014 Depression patients who interacted with characters in a virtual reality environment were less critical and more compassionate toward themselves, researchers found in a small study in England.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at University College London found some of the self-directed negativity of people feel in depression can be mitigated through role-playing in virtual reality.<\/p>\n<p>Dropping people into an immersive electronic world using a virtual reality headset gives them an opportunity to experience different scenarios \u2014 in this case, by embodying either somebody comforting a distressed child or by receiving the comfort as the distressed child.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Health_News\/2016\/02\/15\/Virtual-reality-treatment-helps-depression-patients-in-study\/4601455543019\/\">http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Health_News\/2016\/02\/15\/Virtual-reality-tr...455543019\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a concept; \u201ccould VR be used to rehabilitate criminals to experience through VR what their victims have experienced?\u201d I do know in the recent 20 yrs a part of rehabilitation has included the criminal facing their victims so that the criminal develops a new level of empathy. However, could VR be a better [\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-22640","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\/22640","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=22640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50986,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640\/revisions\/50986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}