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Reviews in Digital Mental Health (289) Methods and New Tools in Mental Health Research (558) Extended Reality, Virtual Reality and Virtual Worlds (761) Digital Health Reviews (1724) Serious Games for Health and Medicine (802) Augmented Reality (incl. Google Glass) Applications (121) Virtual Reality Interventions in Mental Health (173)

Published on in Vol 10 (2023)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/43240, first published .
Adverse Effects of Virtual and Augmented Reality Interventions in Psychiatry: Systematic Review

Adverse Effects of Virtual and Augmented Reality Interventions in Psychiatry: Systematic Review

Adverse Effects of Virtual and Augmented Reality Interventions in Psychiatry: Systematic Review

Authors of this article:

Robert M Lundin1, 2, 3 Author Orcid Image ;   Yuhern Yeap4 Author Orcid Image ;   David B Menkes3 Author Orcid Image
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