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Virtual Dictionary
VR-therapy Virtual Reality Therapy is utilised when a patient physically visits a therapist?s office, and whilst there, is sensorilly immersed in one of more virtual reality systems, designed to recreate the traumatic experience that individual suffers from, in stages ranging from the abstract to as close as possible to the actual event. Below, we offer a selection of links from our resource databases which may match this term.
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MIT have released details of their work with robotic physio therapy to help children suffering from the uncomfortable condition of cerebral palsy, and stroke victims, gain maximum control over their given physical body.
 It was long suspected but never proven that attaching a neuroprosthetic to the brain, was a valid way of providing therapy, and inspiring growth in the organ. Never proven until now, that is.
Paedophilia, the sexual attraction of adults to children, is a significant public health concern and it does not respond well to normal treatment. If the wiring in the brain is indeed different, then this is why traditional therapy does not work in these cases. Perhaps...Perhaps a virtual reality can. 
This is a physical therapy based book, in its second edition. It attempts to provide all the essential information required to make accurate judgements about orthotic/prosthetic prescription and fabrication to give readers a foundation for gait assessment.
 Optogenetics as a field of study, is only a few years old but already a means has been found to make use of it in living brains. Light-detecting proteins combined with gene therapy and an optical neuroprosthetic with a BrainGate style 3D array allow true two-way communication between the brain and a computer system.
A lengthy, somewhat deeply personal look at the advantages of adding - note not replacing - to your therapy requirements via semi-anonymous sessions in virtual environements. Bonding with other individuals in group sessions accomplishes more when the fear of gossip in the individual's home town is completely removed.
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Online psychotherapy is just as efficient as conventional therapy. Three months after the end of the therapy, patients given online treatment even displayed fewer symptoms. For the first time, clinical researchers from the University of Zur...
(30/08/2009)
A common antibiotic can function as an "off switch" for a gene therapy being developed for Parkinson's disease, according to University of Florida researchers writing online in advance of September's Molecular Therapy. Th...
(14/01/2009)
EnteroMedics Inc., developer of medical devices using neuroblocking technology to treat obesity, and other gastrointestinal disorders, has announced results from its clinical trials of a prosthetic implant designed to block part of the vaga...
(29/09/2006)
Five years after the attacks, nearly 65 percent of the victims still suffer post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center is offering victims virtual-reality therapy through two new clini...
(11/08/2012)
Just one week of speech therapy may reorganize the brain, helping to reduce stuttering, according to a study published in the August 8, 2012, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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