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C Perpiñá

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PubMed2003

The VEPSY UPDATED Project: clinical rationale and technical approach.

More than 10 years ago, Tart (1990) described virtual reality (VR) as a technological model of consciousness offering intriguing possibilities for developing diagnostic, inductive, psychotherapeutic, and training techniques that can extend and supplement current ones. To exploit and understand this potential is the overall goal of the "Telemedicine and Portable Virtual Environment in Clinical Psychology"--VEPSY UPDATED--a European Community-funded research project (IST-2000-25323, www.cybertherapy.info). Particularly, its specific goal is the development of different PC-based virtual reality modules to be used in clinical assessment and treatment of social phobia, panic disorders, male sexual disorders, obesity, and eating disorders. The paper describes the clinical and technical rationale behind the clinical applications developed by the project. Moreover, the paper focuses its analysis on the possible role of VR in clinical psychology and how it can be used for therapeutic change.

Computer Simulation↗
PubMed2002

The VEPSY UPDATED project: technical and clinical rationale.

The emergence of new shared media, such as the Internet and virtual reality are changing the ways in which people relate, communicate, and live. Health care, and in particular clinical psychology, is one of the areas that could be most dramatically reshaped by these new technologies. To exploit and understand this potential is the overall goal of the "Telemedicine and Portable Virtual Environment in Clinical Psychology"--VEPSY UPDATED--an European Community funded research project (IST-2000-25323, http://www.vepsy.com) whose specific goal is the development of different PC based virtual reality modules to be used in clinical assessment and treatment. In particular the developed modules have been using to address the following pathologies: anxiety disorders; male impotence and premature ejaculation; obesity, bulimia and binge-eating disorders. The chapter details the general technical and clinical characteristics of the developed modules.

Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted↗
PubMed1998

Virtual reality treatment of claustrophobia: a case report.

The efficacy of a treatment for claustrophobia using only Virtual Reality (VR) exposure was examined. The subject was a 43-year-old female who suffered from clinically significant distress and impairment and sought psychological therapy. Eight individual VR graded exposure sessions were conducted. All self-report measures were reduced following VR exposure and were maintained at one month follow-up. The necessity of a theoretical framework for this new medium for exposure therapy is discussed.

Adult↗
PubMed1998

Virtual reality: a new clinical setting lab.

Virtual Reality (VR) is a new technology halfway between television and computer. It constitutes another step in the evolution of our use of a tool that allows us to see, to hear and to feel in a world created graphically in three dimensions, and to interact with it. VR is, mainly, a mental experience which makes the user believe that "he is there", that he is present in the virtual world. With this new tool, the user is no longer a mere observer of that which is happening on a screen, but he "feels" that he is immersed in that world and participates in it, in spite of the fact that they are spaces and objects that only exist in the memory of the computer and in the user's mind. This chapter seeks to carry out different reflections at different levels. First, we will analyze the relationships between VR and Psychology, one of the disciplines that has made more efforts in order to understand how we obtain knowledge from the world and from ourselves. We will also analyze the impact VR can have in one of the applied disciplines of Psychology, which is Clinical Psychology. With regard to this application environment, VR becomes a tool which can generate useful models for Psychology (both normal and abnormal), and it is offered as a research context for Clinical Psychology; as a "realistic" laboratory where we can study behaviours, emotions, thoughts, etc.; and a new means to develop psychological treatments.

Computer Simulation↗
PubMed1993

Is the selective information processing of food and body words specific to patients with eating disorders?

The selective processing of food- and body size-related information was investigated using a modified version of the Stroop task. Anorexic and bulimic patients and matched female controls were compared on the basis of categorical (diagnosis), dimensional (restraint and drive for thinness) criteria, or both. The findings suggest that the phenomenon assessed by the Stroop paradigm is not exclusive to patients with a clinical eating disorder, but patients and those control subjects who are restrained eaters with a high drive for thinness share a selective processing of information related to shape and eating. The discussion focuses on the implications of these findings.

Anorexia Nervosa↗
PubMed1990

[Cavitated pneumonia and toxic shock syndrome: presentation of a case].

Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is a potentially fatal acute disease preferentially affecting menstruating women and is related to the use of vaginal tampons seems to be due to an specific exotoxin produced by some Staphylococcus aureus strains. We present here the case of a male patients suffering cavitated pneumonia who developed a systemic clinical picture comparable to TSS. This unusual form of presentation is discussed as well as the diagnostic criteria which define this entity.

Adult↗