Psychology and technology: how Virtual Reality can boost psychotherapy and neurorehabilitation

Abstract

The use of the metaverse in the field of psychological research is constantly growing. This is easily verified by consulting PubMed, a free search engine of biomedical scientific literature online since 1996. By entering “psychology” and “virtual reality” (VR) as search keywords, it is possible to verify a progressive growth in the number of articles in the sector that in a few years it has gone from a few dozen to several hundred articles per year (Figure 1).