Virtual Reality for Assessing Body Image: The Body Image Virtual Reality Scale (Bivrs)

Virtual reality for the treatment of body image disturbances.

This chapter describes the characteristics and preliminary evaluation of The Virtual Environment for Body Image Modification (VEBIM), a set of tasks aimed at treating body image disturbances and body dissatisfaction associated with eating disorders. Two methods are commonly used to treat body image: (1) a cognitive/behavioural therapy to influence patients' feelings of dissatisfaction; (2) a vi...

A Virtual Reality Full Body Illusion Improves Body Image Disturbance in Anorexia Nervosa

BACKGROUND Patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) have a persistent distorted experience of the size of their body. Previously we found that the Rubber Hand Illusion improves hand size estimation in this group. Here we investigated whether a Full Body Illusion (FBI) affects body size estimation of body parts more emotionally salient than the hand. In the FBI, analogue to the RHI, participants expe...

Virtual reality for image - guided surgery

Teaching Human Body Structures Using Virtual Reality

1 Liliane S. Machado, Department of Computer Sciences, Federal University of Paraíba, Cidade Universitária s/n, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil, [email protected] 2 Ronei M. Moraes , Department of Statistics, Federal University of Paraíba, Cidade Universitária s/n, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil, [email protected] Abstract  Virtual reality can help medicine learning and teaching in biomedical fields. This pa...

Body image and amputation: Evaluation of psychometric properties of the Amputee Body Image Scale (ABIS)

Background and Aim: The aim of present study was to evaluate psychometric properties of the Amputee the Body Image Scale (ABIS). Methods: A sample of 200 amputee patients were selected from amputee veteran and amputee people under the protection of Red Cerscent by using convenience sampling and asked to respond to the Persian version of The Amputee Body Image Scale (ABIS), Bell Adjustment In...