Clinical Neuropsychiatry

Virtual Reality and Psychedelics for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disease: A Systematic Literature Review

This review (2020) explores the medical applications of Virtual Reality (VR). VR showed security and significant efficacy in the management of disorders like PTSD, gambling disorder and preoperative anxiety, while psychedelics showed positive effects on depressive and anxiety disorders, alcohol use disorder and PTSD. Whether VR and psychedelic therapy could be used simultaneously remains to be seen.

Published

December 28, 2020

Journal

Clinical Neuropsychiatry

Authors

Ortiz, M. I., Gómez-Busto, F. J.