VRx

Brennan Spiegel has spent years researching the mind's ability to heal, and in VRx, he presents a groundbreaking new type of care: virtual medicine. It allows for the treatment of ailments without the need for invasive operations or addictive painkillers. Dr. Spiegel's latest book, VRx, expertly and entertainingly describes the history, current state, and potential future applications of virtual therapies in medicine.

VRx to attend the list of the best books on virtual reality because this is a fantastic book to read if you're interested in virtual reality and the therapeutic potential it offers. It's a little dry at times, but it's still worth it. This is something to check if you're an early adopter or someone seeking trends in business, medicine, psychology, and other fields. Virtual medicine works by persuading your body to believe it is somewhere or doing something it isn't. It's cheap, readily available, and has previously been shown to help with anything from burns to strokes to PTSD. Spiegel demonstrates how a basic VR headset allows a patient with schizophrenia to confront the devil in his brain, how dementia patients regain function in a life-size virtual village, and how physicians are becoming more sympathetic as a result of lifelike simulations of patients' experiences.

Dr. Spiegel's thoroughly-researched and easy-to-read book details the advances that have already been achieved in the field of Virtual Therapeutics, as well as the promising future that it holds for patients suffering from a variety of ailments. This book is for you if you've ever thought about the therapeutic uses of video game technology. This book is for you if you're seeking optimism amid our present opioid catastrophe. This book is for you if you're seeking proof of the usefulness of empathy-based applications.

"Brennan Spiegel takes us on an enthralling voyage beyond the mind-body divide, revealing a universe where our perceptions may be sculpted into a new reality. A world in which our pain, worry, and sadness are suspended, our empathy is unleashed, and physical and emotional recovery is possible. By providing equal emphasis to patient perspectives and scientific facts, this crucial book on virtual reality in medicine demonstrates how modern medicine needs VR to realize its original, yet the elusive purpose of treating the full patient."―Sherry Pagoto, professor of allied health sciences at the University of Connecticut and director of the UConn Center for mHealth and Social Media.

Author: Brennan Spiegel
Language: English
Link buy: https://www.amazon.com/VRx-Virtual-Therapeutics-Revolutionize-Medicine/dp/1541699769