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Can Behavior Be Influenced By The Virtual World? | Barbara O. Rothbaum | TEDxPeachtree

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2016 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Psychologist Barbara Rothbaum has been using VR to successfully treat phobias since the mid-1990s. She shares her recent success in treating PTSD in soldiers returning from the Middle East. 

Barbara O. Rothbaum is a pioneer in the application of virtual reality for the treatment of psychological disorders. She is a professor of psychiatry and the associate vice chair of clinical research at the Emory University School of Medicine. Rothbaum directs the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program and the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program.

Author of 275+ scientific papers and chapters, Rothbaum worked on nine books on PTSD and anxiety. She and her team received the “Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Practice of Trauma Psychology” and the Robert S. Laufer Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement from the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies in 2010.

She is a fellow at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, the American Psychological Association’s Division of Trauma Psychology, and serves on the scientific advisory boards for the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), the National Center for PTSD and McLean Hospital.


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