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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818189503321

Titolo

Annual review of cybertherapy and telemedicine 2014 : positive change : connecting the virtual and the real / / edited by Brenda K. Wiederhold, Giuseppe Riva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Fairfax, Virginia : , : IOS Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61499-401-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, , 1879-8365 ; ; Volume 199

Disciplina

362.1028

Soggetti

Telecommunication in medicine

Virtual reality therapy

Medical informatics

Biotechnology - Data processing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Preface""; ""Review Board""; ""Contents""; ""Section I. Editorial""; ""Positive Change: Connecting the Virtual and the Real""; ""Section II. Critical Reviews""; ""Enabling eHealth as a Pathway for Patient Engagement: A Toolkit for Medical Practice ""; ""Section III. Evaluation Studies""; ""Positive Technology: A Free Mobile Platform for the Self-Management of Psychological Stress""; ""Virtual Humans and Formative Assessment to Train Diagnostic Skills in Bulimia Nervosa""; ""A Personal Health Information Toolkit for Health Intervention Research ""

""Cognitive Assessment of OCD Patients: NeuroVR vs Neuropsychological Test """"A (Cyber)Place for Wellbeing: Managing Interactions in eHealth ""; ""Simulated Job Interview Improves Skills for Adults with Serious Mental Illnesses""; ""Controlling a Stream of Paranoia Evoking Events in a Virtual Reality Environment""; ""Compelling Evidence that Exposure Therapy for PTSD Normalizes Brain Function""; ""Effects of Simulation Fidelity on User Experience in Virtual Fear of Public Speaking Training - An Experimental Study ""



""Development of a VR Application for Binge Eating Treatment: Identification of Contexts and Cues Related to Bingeing Behavior in Spanish and Italian Patients """"Section IV. Original Research""; ""The Mediating Role of Facebook Fan Pages""; ""Marketing Analysis of a Positive Technology App for the Self-Management of Psychological Stress""; ""VR Mobile Solutions for Chronic Stress Reduction in Young Adults ""; ""Quantifying the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Pain Management: A Pilot Study ""; ""Parental Mediation and Cyberbullying - A Longitudinal Study""

""Cognitive Assessment of Stroke Patients with Mobile Apps: A Controlled Study""""What Do We Mean by Social Networking Sites? ""; ""Online Perspective-Taking as an Intervention Tool Against Cyberbullying""; ""Grief Support Groups in Second Life""; ""How Do Client and Therapists in Online Text Therapy Experience Their Exchanges and Relationship?""; ""Exploring Identity Motives in Twitter Usage in Saudi Arabia and the UK ""; ""The Impact of Cyberstalking: The Lived Experience - A Thematic Analysis""; ""Section V. Clinical Observations""

""Virtual Reality Graded Exposure Therapy with Arousal Control for the Treatment of Combat Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Follow Up Case Series""""Validation of VR-Based Software for Binge Eating Treatment: Preliminary Data""; ""Section VI. Work in Progress""; ""Assessing the Mental Frame Syncing in the Elderly: A Virtual Reality Protocol""; ""Intersubjectivity in Video Interview ""; ""NIRS Study of the Effects of Computerized Brain Training Games for Cognitive Rehabilitation of Major  Depressive Disorder Patients in Remission: A Pilot Study""

""Usability Assessment of the Virtual Multitasking Test (V-MT) for Elderly People""

Sommario/riassunto

The evolution of healthcare delivery systems has included an increased reliance on technology. There has been a significant shift in the nature of care prevention, diagnosis and treatment, which has decreased the importance of traditional methods of care delivery. Cybertherapy has started to make progress in treating a variety of disorders, but more work is needed in a number of areas, including the development of easy-to-use and more affordable hardware and software and objective measurement tools, the need to address potential side-effects, and the implementation of more controlled studies t



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818861903321

Titolo

Major mental handicap : methods and costs of prevention

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Elsevier/Excerpta Medica/North-Holland, 1978

ISBN

9786613694164

9781280783777

128078377X

9780470718094

0470718099

9780470720417

0470720417

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 59 (new ser.)

Disciplina

618.9/28/58805

Soggetti

Intellectual disability - Prevention

Intellectual disability - Prevention - Costs

Neonatal intensive care

Prenatal care

Intellectual disability - Etiology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Major Mental Handicap: methods and costs of prevention; Contents; Chairman's introduction; Main causes of major mental handicap: prevalence and epidemiology; Discussion; Aetiology of severe handicapping conditions in early childhood; Discussion; Severe mental retardation in Swedish children born 1959-1970: epidemiological panorama and causative factors; Discussion; ABCs of perinatal medicine; Discussion; Neonatal intensive care and the prevention of major handicap; Discussion

A method for neurological evaluation within the first year of life: experience with full-term newborn infants with birth injuryDiscussion; General Discussion; Present status of the infant of very low birth weight treated in a referral neonatal intensive care unit in 1974; Discussion;



Outcome for infants at high risk of major handicap; Discussion; Application of cost-benefit analysis to programmes for the prevention of mental handicap; Discussion; Perinatality: French cost-benefit studies and decisions on handicap and prevention; Discussion; Final discussion

Priorities for obstetric interventionGroup with IQs of 50-70; Research priorities; UK priorities; Ethics; Index of contributors; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.