Exposure and Response Prevention in Virtual Reality for Patients with Contamination-Related Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: a Case Series.

Exposure therapy in virtual reality is successful in treating anxiety disorders. Studies on exposure and response prevention in virtual reality (VERP) in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are rare, and it is unclear whether distress associated with other emotions than anxiety (e.g.

Using virtual reality to explore differences in memory biases and cognitive insight in people with psychosis and healthy controls.

Memory biases (e.g. overconfidence in false memories) are implicated in the pathogenesis of delusions.

Can virtual reality reduce reality distortion? Impact of performance feedback on symptom change in schizophrenia patients.

Background And Objectives: There is emerging evidence that the induction of doubt can reduce positive symptoms in patients with schizophrenia. Based on prior investigations indicating that brief psychological interventions may attenuate core aspects of delusions, we set up a proof of concept study using a virtual reality experiment. We explored whether feedback for false judgments positively influences delusion severity.