Virtual Reality Helps Soldiers Cope with PTSD
From: Medical Design Technology - 03/11/2015

The military is belatedly grasping the entirety of PTSD's invisible,
psychological scars, and with this evolving understanding comes new methods
of treatment - like Landstuhl Regional Medical Center's use of virtual
reality.

The Wounded Warrior Project donated the Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
(VRET) program to the LRMC in October 2014, and according to Maj. (Dr.)
Michael Valdovinos, chief of outpatient behavioral health at Landstuhl, "It's
an extremely effective treatment because it is a patient’s personalized
reality that they learn to process, control and regulate." "Visual memory is
powerful, and if I can use that to help patients create their own movie
scene, then they can move into it to rewrite their own script," he said.

Read the entire article at
http://www.mdtmag.com/blogs/2015/03/virtual-reality-helps-soldiers-cope-ptsd

Links:
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy helps resolve PTSD
https://www.defencetalk.com/virtual-reality-exposure-therapy-helps-resolve-ptsd-63433/

Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
http://ict.usc.edu/prototypes/pts/