Patients with social phobia can benefit from virtual reality training

Patients with social phobia can benefit from virtual reality training. "People are exposed in this treatment to situations that they fear," says Willem-Paul Brinkman of Delft University of Technology. "For example, returning trousers to a store. For people with an anxiety disorder that is scary."

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