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CHAPTER 44 - VIRTUAL REALITY EXPOSURE THERAPY
Dr. Albert “Skip” Rizzo
Director, Medical, Medical Virtual Reality - Institute for Creative Technologies Research Professor - Department of Psychiatry and School of Gerontology, University of Southern California (USC)
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I am a Clinical Psychologist and Director of Medical Virtual Reality (VR) at USC. Over the last 23 years, my lab has conducted research on the design, development and evaluation of VR systems targeting the areas of clinical assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation across the domains of psychological, cognitive and motor functioning in both healthy and clinical populations. This work has focused on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Autism, Alzheimer’s and other clinical conditions. In spite of the diversity of these clinical areas, the common thread that drives all of this work with digital technologies involves the study of how VR simulations can be usefully applies to human healthcare beyond what is possible with traditional 20th Century methods.
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