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Letters to the Editor (11) Games and Gamification for Health (982) Digital Mental Health Interventions, e-Mental Health and Cyberpsychology (3075) Serious Games for Health and Medicine (1167) Formative Evaluation and Development of Games (112) Mental Health Games (165) Formative Evaluation of Digital Health Interventions (4917) Mental Health Issues in Adolescence (748)

Published on in Vol 12 (2024)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/57714, first published .
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Therapeutic Uses of Gaming in Mental Health: An Untapped Potential

Therapeutic Uses of Gaming in Mental Health: An Untapped Potential

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