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Serious Games for Health and Medicine (802) Extended Reality, Virtual Reality and Virtual Worlds (761) Dementia and Cognitive Decline (696)

Published on in Vol 10, No 3 (2022): Jul-Sep

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/36720, first published .
The Long-term Effects of Immersive Virtual Reality Reminiscence in People With Dementia: Longitudinal Observational Study

The Long-term Effects of Immersive Virtual Reality Reminiscence in People With Dementia: Longitudinal Observational Study

The Long-term Effects of Immersive Virtual Reality Reminiscence in People With Dementia: Longitudinal Observational Study

Authors of this article:

Ling-Chun Huang1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Yuan-Han Yang1, 2, 3, 4 Author Orcid Image
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