Authors:G. Riva, G. Riva, C. Botella, P. Legeron, G. Optale,
Publisher: IOS Press
Keywords: neuroscience, psychology, studies, health, informatics, technology, clinical, tools, virtual, internet, reality, assessment, rehabilitation, cybertherapy
Number of Pages: 271
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $171.00
ISBN-10: 1586034111
ISBN-13: 9781586034115

Cybertherapy, the integration of telehealth technologies with the Internet and shared virtual reality, is used for two reasons: either because there is no alternative, or because it is in some sense better than traditional medicine. Nevertheless, the benefits of cybertherapy, due to the variety of its applications and their uneven development, are not self-evident. However, the emergence of cybertherapy is supporting the cost-effectiveness of certain applications, such as assessment, rehabilitation and therapy in clinical psychology and neuroscience. Its key advantage is the possibility of sha