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VRx - How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine (Hardcover)
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VRx - How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine (Hardcover)
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A virtualist is a doctor who specializes in virtual medicine. She
uses tools like VR headsets, spatial acoustics, haptic feedback,
and even olfactory mimicry to induce reactions in patients' bodies
that help treat a variety of physiological and psychological
conditions, from chronic pain, to compulsive behavior, without the
use of pharmaceuticals or surgical techniques. Virtualists don't
exist yet, but after reading VRx they just might. In recent years,
scientists have established that people's perceptions - their
subjective experiences of the world - influence how their bodies
work. We typically have little control over our perceptions,
particularly when we are sick. But what could we do if we did? In
VRx Brennan Spiegel introduces readers to a new kind of medicine,
called virtual therapeutics, answering exactly this question, using
technology that is already available. It works through two basic
but powerful psychological concepts: embodied cognition, the idea
that thought processes involve the whole body, not just the brain;
and presence, the ability of virtual reality to trick your body
into thinking it's somewhere that it isn't, or can do something
that it can't usually do. VRx takes readers on a mindbending
journey through the ways in which these deep connections between
our minds and our bodies are being put to good use. We learn about
the woman who endures an exceptionally painful labor by completing
breathing exercises on a digital beach, the schizophrenic patient
who literally confronts the demon inside his head, the burn victims
who are able to manage their pain better after traversing snowy
virtual landscapes, and the doctor who confronted his own fear of
mortality by watching himself die. Brimming with extraordinary
stories of the power of virtual therapeutics to treat both physical
and psychological conditions, VRx offers nothing short of a
completely new way of healing.
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