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"The goal of therapy is to change psychological and physical responses to environmental conditions, thus, to unlearn unhelpful cognitive and physiological patterns and to replace them with adaptive patterns. Learning and unlearning, and by extension therapy, involve structural and functional changes across multiple distinct neural networks. ITxs, such as VR, deliver content that broadly engage multiple learning systems in the brain in synchrony, thus having the unique potential to increase the effectiveness and speed of therapeutic change. We explore an application of VR in chronic pain management and compare it with the traditional therapeutic approaches" Read more: https://lnkd.in/gGJFp5pE Todd Maddox, Ph.D. #HealthcareSimulation #ClinicalSimulation #VirtualReality #MentalHealth