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AI and Virtual Reality Enter the Therapist’s Office

Louise Birkedal Glenthøj has worked with patients with serious psychiatric disorders for more than a decade. She knew that anorexia was a tough condition to treat, and that even after traditional therapies, half of patients relapse. So, in her latest study, she decided to take a slightly different approach: Rather than targeting eating behaviors or the fears a person may have when confronted with food, her team invited patients to imagine the internal voice that fueled their food-restrictive behavior. That voice was then, through virtual reality technology, rendered on a screen as an avatar. ….[READ]

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