Chris Geraets receives a €300.000 mental health care fellowship from ZonMw. In the coming 5 years she will use this grant to develop a virtual reality therapy called VR-VOICES for auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) - hearing voices that others cannot…
This summer, the first findings on DiSCoVR were published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research: Mental Health. This article is about the pilot study on DiSCoVR. The main purpose was to investigate whether DiSCoVR was acceptable and feasible, for…
In march 2018 the VRelax pilot study has officialy started at the Psychosis department of the University Medical Centre Groningen. With VRelax we research whether VR can help reduce stress in people with a depressive, bipolar, anxiety or psychotic disorder.…
At the same time, 200 people felt the power of Virtual Reality during Wim Veling's oration as Professor of Psychiatry at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG). Within 3 minutes they hung over the edge of the Martinitoren in Groningen…
By Anja den Tuinder, VRAPT trainer in the Pompekliniek It was quite exciting for me to undergo the Virtual Reality Aggression Prevention Training (VRAPT) myself. At the same time, I felt and experienced the many possibilities of this training, especially…
This week Alyssa Jongeneel's article was published, she researched self-confidence and social stress using virtual environments. In the research people were exposed to a virtual bar with different levels of social stress. High social stress was created by making the…
People with psychosis can overcome their paranoia and anxiety by practicing in Virtual Reality environments. After a therapy with Virtual Reality (VR), they are less afraid and can do things they sometimes didn't dare to do for years, such as…
Last Friday Stéphanie Klein Tuente and Wim Veling visited BNR's studio for an interview. Here she told about the Vrapt research in which VR is used to prevent aggression. Listen to the broadcast here. In a new treatment for tbs’ers…
Since March 2017 I have been working as a practitioner for the DiSCoVR pilot study with two other psychologists from the University Centre for Psychiatry (UCP) at the psychosis outpatient clinic. As part of this research, I am giving the…
