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Taking modern psychiatry into the metaverse: Integrating augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies into psychiatric care
The landscape of psychiatry is ever evolving and has recently begun to be influenced more heavily by new technologies. One novel technology which may have particular application to psychiatry is the metaverse, a three-dimensional digital social platform accessed via augmented, virtual, and mixed rea...
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author | Ford, T.J. Buchanan, Derrick M. Azeez, Azeezat Benrimoh, David A. Kaloiani, Irakli Bandeira, Igor D. Hunegnaw, Saron Lan, Lucy Gholmieh, Mia Buch, Vivek Williams, Nolan R. |
author_facet | Ford, T.J. Buchanan, Derrick M. Azeez, Azeezat Benrimoh, David A. Kaloiani, Irakli Bandeira, Igor D. Hunegnaw, Saron Lan, Lucy Gholmieh, Mia Buch, Vivek Williams, Nolan R. |
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description | The landscape of psychiatry is ever evolving and has recently begun to be influenced more heavily by new technologies. One novel technology which may have particular application to psychiatry is the metaverse, a three-dimensional digital social platform accessed via augmented, virtual, and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR). The metaverse allows the interaction of users in a virtual world which can be measured and manipulated, posing at once exciting new possibilities and significant potential challenges and risks. While the final form of the nascent metaverse is not yet clear, the immersive simulation and holographic mixed reality-based worlds made possible by the metaverse have the potential to redefine neuropsychiatric care for both patients and their providers. While a number of applications for this technology can be envisioned, this article will focus on leveraging the metaverse in three specific domains: medical education, brain stimulation, and biofeedback. Within medical education, the metaverse could allow for more precise feedback to students performing patient interviews as well as the ability to more easily disseminate highly specialized technical skills, such as those used in advanced neurostimulation paradigms. Examples of potential applications in brain stimulation and biofeedback range from using AR to improve precision targeting of non-invasive neuromodulation modalities to more innovative practices, such as using physiological and behavioral measures derived from interactions in VR environments to directly inform and personalize treatment parameters for patients. Along with promising future applications, we also discuss ethical implications and data security concerns that arise when considering the introduction of the metaverse and related AR/VR technologies to psychiatric research and care. |
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spelling | pubmed-100800192023-04-08 Taking modern psychiatry into the metaverse: Integrating augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies into psychiatric care Ford, T.J. Buchanan, Derrick M. Azeez, Azeezat Benrimoh, David A. Kaloiani, Irakli Bandeira, Igor D. Hunegnaw, Saron Lan, Lucy Gholmieh, Mia Buch, Vivek Williams, Nolan R. Front Digit Health Digital Health The landscape of psychiatry is ever evolving and has recently begun to be influenced more heavily by new technologies. One novel technology which may have particular application to psychiatry is the metaverse, a three-dimensional digital social platform accessed via augmented, virtual, and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR). The metaverse allows the interaction of users in a virtual world which can be measured and manipulated, posing at once exciting new possibilities and significant potential challenges and risks. While the final form of the nascent metaverse is not yet clear, the immersive simulation and holographic mixed reality-based worlds made possible by the metaverse have the potential to redefine neuropsychiatric care for both patients and their providers. While a number of applications for this technology can be envisioned, this article will focus on leveraging the metaverse in three specific domains: medical education, brain stimulation, and biofeedback. Within medical education, the metaverse could allow for more precise feedback to students performing patient interviews as well as the ability to more easily disseminate highly specialized technical skills, such as those used in advanced neurostimulation paradigms. Examples of potential applications in brain stimulation and biofeedback range from using AR to improve precision targeting of non-invasive neuromodulation modalities to more innovative practices, such as using physiological and behavioral measures derived from interactions in VR environments to directly inform and personalize treatment parameters for patients. Along with promising future applications, we also discuss ethical implications and data security concerns that arise when considering the introduction of the metaverse and related AR/VR technologies to psychiatric research and care. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10080019/ /pubmed/37035477 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2023.1146806 Text en © 2023 Ford, Buchanan, Azeez, Benrimoh, Kaloiani, Bandeira, Hunegnaw, Lan, Gholmieh, Buch and Williams. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Digital Health Ford, T.J. Buchanan, Derrick M. Azeez, Azeezat Benrimoh, David A. Kaloiani, Irakli Bandeira, Igor D. Hunegnaw, Saron Lan, Lucy Gholmieh, Mia Buch, Vivek Williams, Nolan R. Taking modern psychiatry into the metaverse: Integrating augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies into psychiatric care |
title | Taking modern psychiatry into the metaverse: Integrating augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies into psychiatric care |
title_full | Taking modern psychiatry into the metaverse: Integrating augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies into psychiatric care |
title_fullStr | Taking modern psychiatry into the metaverse: Integrating augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies into psychiatric care |
title_full_unstemmed | Taking modern psychiatry into the metaverse: Integrating augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies into psychiatric care |
title_short | Taking modern psychiatry into the metaverse: Integrating augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies into psychiatric care |
title_sort | taking modern psychiatry into the metaverse: integrating augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies into psychiatric care |
topic | Digital Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10080019/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37035477 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2023.1146806 |
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