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Virtual Reality Treatments for Specific Phobias:A Review
Virtual reality is becoming one of the seamless technology which can be used to treat several psychological problems such as anxiety disorders. With the advancement of technology virtual reality is becoming available to ordinary practitioners to carry out non-clinical therapies. An effective virtual reality system provides the user with total immersion and becomes a part of the virtual world. This study provides an insight as how virtual reality could provide means to overpower anxiety disorders through a controlled environment which is being projected to participants suffering from specific phobias.
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Terms-Acrophobia, Claustrophobia, Arachnophobia, Novint Falcon.
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