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20/04/2017

New award to the project to treat ADHD with virtual reality

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20/04/2017

The project has been recognized on the 32nd Conference on Behavioral Therapy and Behavioral Medicine in Clinical Practice.

Normal1 The jury of the 32nd Conference on Behavioral Therapy and Behavioral Medicine in Clinical Practice, which was held on April 6, has given the award for best communication to the work of the http://bit.ly/1aQo4gu" Psychiatry Service at Vall d'hebron, treatment of ADHD through Virtual reality through a programme of Mindfulness. The paper, signed by Dr. Juanfran Serra and the head of the service, Dr. Josep Antonio Ramos-Quiroga, brings together the activity developed in this project, which was launched in September last year in collaboration with the Catalan company Psious. Normal1 This is the second credit for the initiative, which has already won the Mobile Word Capital Barcelona award to technological innovation in the http://bit.ly/2dJHqd3" 6th Conference on R+D+I and ICT health and Social. All this has led Dr. Ramos-Quiroga to ensure that "this encourages us to continue". This new award "makes us a particularly proud because it is awarded in one of the most prestigious forums on the behavioural and cognitive psychotherapies". At the same time, "it is a boost to the careers of the young psychologists of the service, as Dr. Juanfran Serra". Normal1 Treating ADHD with virtual reality Normal1 The pilot, launch in Vall d'Hebron, uses virtual reality, combined with techniques of mindfulness, to treat ADHD. Virtual reality allows professionals to use realistic environments to promote the concentration of patients with the ultimate goal to reduce treatment time and get the same results as with the pharmacological treatment.

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