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This study investigates the application of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) in the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among firefighters. Firefighters frequently encounter severe traumatic events due to their exposure to various ...

Microglia express phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) has been implicated in the induction and maintenance of long-term potentiation (LTP) and in hippocampal synaptic plasticity. However, there are few studies on ...

In the current time, Virtual Reality (VR) technologies are improving rapidly. Virtual Reality (VR) allows the user to experience immersive environment that they can interact with through the creation of a 3D digital world. Many studies have ...

Virtual reality exposure treatment (VRET) for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an emerging treatment. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness and safety of VRET in patients with PTSD due to motor vehicle or industrial ...

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In this paper we propose a novel framework for the definition of Personas for healthcare workers based on an online survey, with the aim of highlighting different levels of risk of developing mental disorders ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a serious public health issue. Approximately 8 million adults in the United States suffer from PTSD in any given year, and 7–8% of the U.S. population will have PTSD at some point in their lives. Recent studies ...

In this paper, a second-order adaptive network model is introduced for a number of phenomena that occur in the context of PTSD. First of all the model covers simulation of the formation of a mental model of a traumatic course of events and its ...

This research report describes the development of a virtual reality (VR) laboratory stressor to study the effects of exposure to stressful events. The aim of the research was to develop a VR simulation that would evoke stressor responses at a ...

The experience of severe trauma serves as the causation of several mental health disorders. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a common example. The traditional treatments for this kind of mental health disorder have achieved some positive effects. ...

Like many researchers, we think that the use of dynamic difficulty adjustment (DDA) to offer an appropriate balance between the skills of the player and the difficulty of the gameplay is an appropriate avenue to maintain the flow of a user. We ...

Our research addresses the opportunities offered by ICT for improving the resilience and psychosocial well-being of refugees and other vulnerable target groups who have experienced mentally stressful events. We want to distinguish between perceived ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) negatively influences a person's ability to cope and increases psychiatric morbidity. The existing diagnostic tools of PTSD are often difficult to administer within marginalized communities due to language and ...

This article focuses on psychological safety while playing XR (VR + AR) games, and the development of safe-guards (‘fuses’) to avoid possible negative impacts incurred during virtual experiences. VR and AR have moved from hi-tech development ...

Natural disasters cause long-lasting mental health problems such as PTSD in children. Following the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan, we witnessed a shift of toy block play behavior in young children who suffered from stress after the disaster. The ...

The second half of the twentieth century has witnessed unprecedented development and growth in information technology. What began as a foundational technology in exploring science and engineering has evolved into ground-breaking tools in most ...

Cross-language, cross-cultural emotion recognition and accurate prediction of affective disorders are two of the major challenges in affective computing today. In this work, we compare several systems for Detecting Depression with AI Sub-challenge (DDS) ...

This study focuses on the need for the support that is required from the Information and Communication Technologies to the psychotherapeutic processes related to PTSD, which are treated based on the internationally standardized clinical diagnoses in the ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a serious mental health condition. Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy has been shown to have the greatest therapeutic efficacy in treating PTSD. However, clinicians face significant challenges in delivering PE ...

In this paper a computational model of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder is presented. The considered therapy has as a goal to decrease the stress level of a stressed individual by using electrode which placed ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a chronic mental disorder caused by mental or psychological trauma after sudden events of a catastrophic or threatening nature. Synaptic plasticity is the core mechanism of PTSD and the ...