Healing in VR - Immersive Therapy for Mental Health and Pain Management

Explore how Virtual Reality and AI are revolutionizing healthcare. This pathway covers VRET for PTSD, immersive distraction for pain management, and innovative VR applications for autism and stroke recovery.

After completing this Pathway, you will be able to:

• Explain how immersive VR technologies—such as "Social Sandboxes" and "Virtual Mirror Boxes"—differently impact the psychological and physiological recovery processes in patients with autism or stroke-related impairments
• Discuss the effectiveness of integrating AI-driven emotion recognition within virtual environments to dynamically adjust therapeutic intensity based on real-time patient distress levels