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Mental health / Cyberpsychology

Applying virtual reality to anxiety disorders

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Julio Álvarez eHealth Business Unit ManagerJon Arambarri R&D Projects Director

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What is a phobia??

A phobia is defined as an irrational and excessive fear of an object or situation. These are largely under reported, probably because many phobia sufferers find ways to avoid the situations to which they are phobic.

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Types of phobiasSocial phobia Agoraphobia

AracnophobiaAviatophobiaAcrophobia…

Specific phobia

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Signs and Symptoms of Phobias?

Panic attack

Physical symptoms

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Did you know that …

Phobias are the single most common mental disorder.

All three types of phobia, social, agoraphobia and specific are likely to affect between 5 and 10 people in every 100.

Phobia statistics suggest that roughly twice as many women as men suffer specific phobia though about equal numbers of women and men have social phobia.

Only about 20% of specific phobias disappear on their own for an adult.

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How Are Phobias Treated?

The best treatment option is usually Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.

Exposure treatments attempt to lessen phobias by repeated exposure to the feared object or situation.

In vivo exposureImagination

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Costs vs in vivo

Total control of

the "phobic"

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Segments of any

phobia can be

repeated.

No risks of potential physical harm.

People resistant to traditional treatment.

Virtual Reality Immersion TherapyVirtual reality therapy (VRT), also known as virtual reality immersion therapy (VRIT) and virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) is a method of psychotherapy that uses virtual reality technology to treat patients with anxiety disorders and phobias.

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Product Value PropositionVI

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VirtualRet is a Virtual Reality platform for the treatment of anxiety disorders (Phobias). The patients are immersed into a Virtual environment with no risk, and are exposed to different sequences causing the desired medical stress levels.

Using Virtual Reality glasses a high degree of immersion is achieved with the final objective of treatment and diagnose a variety of phobias.

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Thank you very much