Several companies and clinicians are using VR therapy, which has shown success in treating PTSD, to treat other disorders like social anxiety and phobias
Dani Blum / New York Times : Tweets: @avibarzeev and @wcmpsychiatry Tweets: @avibarzeev : Big wins go to the the companies that get FDA approval. Big risks for those who automate therapies to reach the masses “at low cost.” https://www.nytimes.com/... For patients, this can be scary. But re-encoding traumatic memories to drop assoc. stressors can be life-changing. Weill Cornell Medicine Psychiatry / @wcmpsychiatry : Dr. JoAnn Difide of @WeillCornell, one of the leading experts in #virtualreality treatment for #PTSD, speaks w/ the @nytimes on her research & how VR could be effective in treating pandemic related PTSD. https://ow.ly/...