Using Virtual Reality as Therapy

freakmn writes "CNN reports that Dr. JoAnn Difede, an associate professor for the department of psychiatry and the director of Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Studies Program at Weill Cornell Medical College is working to help heal the wounds of 9/11 through virtual reality. They claim to use video games to re-enact the events that happened on 9/11 as part of the therapy." From the article: "The program is basic compared to slick video games on the market, but the developers say the simplicity allows patients to fill in the blanks."

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Video Games = Good Health

[MiceHead]

A woman once contacted our customer support, thanking us for creating one of our puzzle games. She told us that she had suffered neurological damage, and was using the logic puzzles to "wake up" the parts of her brain that were sleeping.

Ever since that time, I've told people that games have the power to heal the human miiiind.