the characteristics of the Experiential Cognitive Therapy (ECT), an integrated in-patient/out-patient (4 weeks) and telemedicine approach (24 weeks), that tries to enhance the cognitive-behavioral therapy used in the treatment of eating disorders by means of VR sessions and telemedicine support in the follow-up stage

In the past decade medical applications of virtual reality (VR) and telemedicine have been rapidly developing, and the technology has changed from a research curiosity to a commercially and clinically important area of medical informatics technology.

the follow-up period. This paper describes the 6-month follow-up outcome of the Experiential Cognitive Therapy (ECT), a multi factorial treatment for binge eating disorders, including virtual reality therapy. These results are compared in a randomized controlled trial (n = 36) with the ones obtained by CBT

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