VR In Treating Mental Illness: China May Be In The Forefront

In China, Mental Health Care Goes Virtual by Christopner Magoon.  Scientific American.  July 19, 2019. 

Virtual Reality As Therapy For Pain

Virtual Reality As Therapy For Pain by Jane E. Brody.  The New York Times.  April 29, 2019. 

Virtual Dementia Tour Aims To Increase Empathy For Dementia Patients

Loud Banging, Foot Pain, And Flashes Of Light--My Eight Minutes As A Dementia Patient by Tara Bahrampour. 

Virtual Reality Has The Potential To Improve Psychotherapy Access And Research

Virtual Reality And The Future Of Mental Health by Bill Gardner.  The Incidental Economist.  April 1, 2016

Simulated Invisibility Through Virtual Reality May Offer Treatments For Social Anxiety and Phantom Limb Illusions

Anxious?  Consider Invisibility by Nathan Collins.  Pacific Standard.  April 23, 2015. 

Artificial Reality Simulations Through Avatars Might Help Weight Loss

New Skinny On Weight Loss:  Avatars Might Help by Fatimah Waseem.  USA TODAY.  July 1, 2013.

(1)  The research here, according to an expert quoted in the article, can show "how using virtual world technologies can be ______________________________________."

(2)  The participants in the study were able to ______________________ so as to better identify with the weight loss behaviors illustrated.

(3)  What were some limitations of the study?

(4)  What are some of the other uses for virtual reality systems for health promotion and behavior modification?

(5)  The study recounted here supports the idea that a computer avatar could be useful in influencing a person's ___________________.