Annual review of cybertherapy and telemedicine 2013 : positive technology and health engagement for healthy living and active ageing / edited by Brenda K. Wiederhold and Giuseppe Riva.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Title Page; Preface; Contents; Section I. Editorial; The Quest for Active and Healthy Ageing: What Cyberpsychology Can Offer; Section II. White Paper; Positive Technology as a Driver for Health Engagement; Section III. Critical Reviews; VR Cue-Exposure Treatment for Bulimia Nervosa; Sitting/Setting on a Fence: The Use of (Video)Recording in Producing Data to Study Edge Environments; Section IV. Evaluation Studies; The German VR Simulation Realism Scale -- Psychometric Construction for Virtual Reality Applications with Virtual Humans.

Virtual Multiple Errands Test: Reliability, Usability and Possible ApplicationsValidation of a Low-Cost EEG Device for Mood Induction Studies; Virtual Reality as a Method for Evaluation and Therapy After Traumatic Hand Surgery; Methodology Case Study of the Application of Haptics to Combat Medic Training Programs; Clinical Experiment to Assess Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Teen Smoking Cessation Program; Section V. Original Research; Psychophysiological Correlates of Flow During Daily Activities; Designing a Serious Game for In-Field Interventions to Promote Nightlife Well-Being.

The Impact of Different Perceptual Cues on Fear and Presence in Virtual RealityThe Development of a Haptic Virtual Reality Environment to Study Body Image and Affect; Cyberbullying in Cyprus -- Associated Parenting Style and Psychopathology; The Impact of Internet and PC Addiction in School Performance of Cypriot Adolescents; Priming to Induce Paranoid Thought in a Non Clinical Population; Drugs Don't Work in Patients Who Don't Take Them: Dr. Drin, the New ICT Paradigm for Chronic Therapies; Cue-Elicited Anxiety and Craving for Food Using Virtual Reality Scenarios.

Assessment of Frontal Brain Functions in Alcoholics Following a Health Mobile Cognitive Stimulation ApproachHeart Rate Response to Fear Conditioning and Virtual Reality in Subthreshold PTSD; What Do Audiences Do When They Sit and Listen?; The Effect of Military Motion-Assisted Memory Desensitization and Reprocessing Treatment on the Symptoms of Combat-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: First Preliminary Results; Section VI. Clinical Observations; Evaluating Virtual Reality Mood Induction Procedures with Portable EEG Devices.

Measuring Presence During the Navigation in a Virtual Environment Using EEGNeurocognition, Presence and Acceptance of a VR Programme for Psychotic Patients: A Correlational Study; Section VII. Work in Progress; Contactless Bio-Behavioral Technologies for Virtual Reality; Evaluation of a Personal Mobile Coaching Service for Health Tracking; Cognitive Rehabilitation of Schizophrenia Through Neurovr Training; Peak Provoked Craving After Smoking Cessation; Designing Virtual Environments to Measure Behavioral Correlates of State-Level Body Satisfaction.

Technological advances have been responsible for many developments in the field of healthcare in recent years. One of the areas opened up by new technological possibilities is that of cybertherapy and telemedicine, which involves the use of computer and communications technology to provide improved health services that are sometimes qualitatively different from those provided in traditional in-person therapeutic experiences. This book, the Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine (ARCTT), covers a wide variety of topics of interest to the mental health, neuroscience and rehabilitation com.

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