Virtual and augmented reality promising for neurodevelopmental disorders - Medical Xpress

For adults with neurodevelopmental disorders, preliminary findings uncover a affirmative interaction of virtual and augmented world connected functional performance, according to a reappraisal published online Dec. 14 successful Frontiers successful Psychiatry.

Bing-Lee Tan, from the Singapore Institute of Technology, and colleagues conducted a systematic reappraisal to measure usage of virtual world oregon augmented world exertion among adults with neurodevelopmental disorders and the interaction of virtual oregon augmented world exertion rehabilitation programs.

Thirty-eight studies met the inclusion criteria; 3 studies utilized augmented reality, and the remainder utilized virtual reality. The researchers recovered that the virtual scenarios were displayed successful antithetic ways, including arsenic head-mounted displays, machine screens, mobile devices, and cave rooms. Features specified arsenic speech recognition, oculus tracking, and a motion-capture instrumentality were utilized successful a fewer studies to supply real-time feedback to participants during rehabilitation.

Interventions that addressed assemblage surviving were reported successful 11 studies, portion 15 studies addressed vocational skills, and 9 trained participants successful societal skills oregon societal cognition. Using virtual scenarios to exposure participants to assorted situations was employed successful 3 studies to amended prime of life. Most studies reported preliminary promising results; betterment was demonstrated successful the functional domains addressed. Small illustration sizes were reported successful respective studies and galore studies had a superior oregon captious hazard for bias.

"There is imaginable to harness the utile features of virtual and augmented reality and integrate different exertion to heighten attraction outcomes," the authors write.

More information: Bhing-Leet Tan et al, The usage of virtual world and augmented world successful psychosocial rehabilitation for adults with neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review, Frontiers successful Psychiatry (2022). DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1055204

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