Virtual Reality–Based Psychotherapy in Social Anxiety Disorder: fMRI Study Using a Self-Referential Task

Ji-Won Hur   ¹ , PhD ;   Hyemin Shin   ¹ , BA ;   Dooyoung Jung   ² , MD, PhD ;   Heon-Jeong Lee   ³ , MD, PhD ;   Sungkil Lee   ⁴ , PhD ;   Gerard J Kim   ⁵ , PhD ;   Chung-Yean Cho   ⁶ , MFA ;   Seungmoon Choi   ⁷ , PhD ;   Seung-Moo Lee   ⁶ , MFA ;   Chul-Hyun Cho   ^{8, 9} , MD, PhD

¹ School of Psychology, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

² Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Republic of Korea

³ Department of Psychiatry, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

⁴ Department of Software, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea

⁵ Digital Experience Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

⁶ Department of Film & Multimedia, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Republic of Korea

⁷ Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea

⁸ Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

⁹ Department of Psychiatry, Chungnam National University Sejong Hospital, Sejong, Republic of Korea