A promising new tool for mental healthcare?
Virtual Body Illusions: a promising new tool for mental healthcare
Several psychiatric disorders – foremost anorexia nervosa – encompass an altered image of one’s own body. To date, the origin of such body image disturbances remains mysterious, and methods to detect and treat them remain limited. Virtual Body Illusions allow to confront patients with an alternative reality of their own bodies, possibly allowing to better understand and treat such disorders and helping millions of patients worldwide in the future.
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