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Serious Games for Health and Medicine (647) Extended Reality, Virtual Reality and Virtual Worlds (520) Mental Health Games (77)

Published on in Vol 6, No 3 (2018): Jul-Sep

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/9226, first published .
Head-Mounted Virtual Reality and Mental Health: Critical Review of Current Research

Head-Mounted Virtual Reality and Mental Health: Critical Review of Current Research

Head-Mounted Virtual Reality and Mental Health: Critical Review of Current Research

Authors of this article:

Shaun W Jerdan1 Author Orcid Image ;   Mark Grindle1 Author Orcid Image ;   Hugo C van Woerden2, 3 Author Orcid Image ;   Maged N Kamel Boulos4 Author Orcid Image
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