Letter from the Publisher
➣ Professor Dr. Brenda K. Wiederhold Dear Reader, Welcome to the inaugural issue of Cyber – Therapy & Rehabilitation Magazine (C&R), the official voice of the International Association of CyberTherapy…read more →
Author: Brenda Wiederhold
President of Virtual Reality Medical Institute (VRMI) in Brussels, Belgium. Executive VP Virtual Reality Medical Center (VRMC), based in San Diego and Los Angeles, California. CEO of Interactive Media Institute a 501c3 non-profit Clinical Instructor in Department of Psychiatry at UCSD Founder of CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy, & Social Networking Conference Visiting Professor at Catholic University Milan.
C&R in Romania
By Andreea Rimbu Mental healthcare suffered a great blow when Ceausescu banned psychology departments across România, as psychologists were deemed a threat to the regime. Mental illness was treated with…read more →
Transforming VR into a Reality for Behavioral Healthcare: The NeuroVR Project
By Giuseppe Riva, Andrea Gaggioli & Cinzia Vigna Although the papers in previous issues of C&R have shown that Virtual Reality (VR) has come of age for clinical and research…read more →
Japan: Leading the Way in Elderly Care with Rehabilitation Robots
By Lingjun Kong The use of assistive and therapy robots in rehabilitation has r a p i d l y evolved in Japan for several reasons. There is a growing…read more →
DARPA Leads Revolution in Prosthetics
By Colonel Geoffrey Ling and Kent Pankratz For Colonel Geoffrey Ling, the DARPA Program Manager who leads the program entering its fifth year, two main tasks remain. The first is…read more →
Enhancing Robotic-Assisted Gait Training in Children with Cerebral Palsy via Interactive Gaming
By Paolo Bonato Recovering gait function after a neurological injury such as a stroke or a traumatic brain injury is a major goal of rehabilitation. Gait is a key motor…read more →
Social Robots for Self-management of Health-promoting Activities
By Mark A. Neerincx In Western society, the need for health-promoting activities of young and old citizens is increasing vastly. Assistive technologies are being developed that help to prevent or…read more →
Highlights of the 16th Annual CyberPsychology & CyberTherapy Conference: Gatineau, Canada 19-22 June, 2011
By James Cullen The 16th Annual CyberPsychology & CyberTherapy Conference: Evidence-Based Clinical Application of Information Technology (CYBER16), the official conference of the International Association of CyberPsychology, Training & Rehabilitation (iACToR)…read more →
The Need for Cognitive Systems in Medical Care
By Joanna J. Bryson The idea of cognitive systems for medical care might conjure a frightening image of a silent, insensitive hospital full of unheeding robot nurses. But not every…read more →
Assistive Social Robots for Elderly Care
By Joost Broekens, Koen Hindriks & Martijn Wisse The developed countries face a serious demographic challenge. In these countries, almost one fifth of the population was aged 60 or older…read more →