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GQ, June 2006, in press

MTV, June 2006, airdate pending.

Wired, June 2006, in press

Los Angeles Times. May 15, 2006, Control a car with your thoughts - it's therapeutic. source

Family Practice News, April 15, 2006, Virtual Reality Exposure Touted for PTSD Treatment

Internal Medicine News, April 15, 2006, Virtual Reality Exposure Targets PTSD

Clinical Psychiatry News, April, 2006, Virtual Reality Exposure Touted for PTSD Treatment. At 6 months, 78% of Vietnam veterans who participated in the therapy had good functioning. source

The Economist, Dec 8th 2005, Odd bedfellows, Striking results.

The San Diego Union Tribune, November 6, 2005, Band of Brothers: Hollywood and the military join forces, using virtual reality to train GI's and 'help keep people alive'. source

The Nation, November 2005

Military Medicine Technology, Oct Issue, PTSD: More than just a headgame, posttraumatic stress disorder is being studied, researched and treated like the medical affliction that it is. source

NPR Marketplace, October 3, 2005, Shoot'em up with Penicillin, source

Japanese National Broadcasting, to be aired, PTSD

The New Scientist, September 24, 2005, PTSD Virtual Reality Treatment

USC Daily Trojan, August 31, 2005, Software Helps Soldiers Cope source

DW Radio Germany, August 25, 2005

BBC Radio, August 24, 2005,

Wired News.com, August 22, 2005, VR Goggles Heal Scars of War source

NPR Day to Day, August 19, 2005, Virtual Reality Therapy for Combat Stress source

ABC News "Ahead of the Curve ", August 19, 2005

ABC News World News Tonight, July 28, 2005, Virtual Reality Shows Promise as Stress Treatment Disorder, source

KCET, and Times, July 27, 2005, Healing Soldiers With Virtual Trauma source

Investor's Business Daily, July 13, 2005, source

KPFA 94.1FM Radio, June 30, 2005, Report on PTSD

KTVU TV, June 28, 2005, Report on Combat Related PTSD and New Treatments

KKGO 810am, June 26, 2005, One hour interview on The Karel Show.

The San Francisco Chronicle, June 22, 2005, The game of their lives: Biofeedback through video helps returning troops fight post-traumatic stress disorder. source

KCBS Radio, June 22, 2005, Live interview on PTSD Treatment

Aljazeera, May 30, 2005, Traumatic stress therapy for Iraq and Afghan wars vets. source

Congressional Quarterly Weekly, May 23, 2005, New Prescriptions for War Trauma, Cover Story, 1367.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 21, 2005, Virtual medicine: Technology enlisted to fight fears, trauma. source

ABC World Report, Taped on April 15th, To air during the week of 7/10/2005

Investor's Business Daily, to appear during the week of 7/10/2005

CBS Evening News, Aired on May 5, 2005.

Medical News Today, May 27, 2005, New haptics systems challenge stroke patients to grasp, pinch, squeeze their way to recovery. source

Weekend America, American Public Media, NPR, April 23, 2005. source

Health Central, April 24, 2005,Virtual Reality May Help Troubled Vets, source

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 24, 2005, Virtual Reality May Help Troubled Vets, source

Le Figaro, April 23, 2005, Le virtuel s'attaque aux phobies source

20 Minutes, April 21, 2005, Les Americains au secours du stress des soldats d'Irak, source

La Liberation, April 20,2005, La réalité virtuelle, potion du réel source

Marine Corp Times, April 18, 2005, "Enemy Fire as Therapy&qout;, source

KOMO 1000 News - ABC, April 12, 2005, Seattle WA . Live Interview

My DNA.com, April 12, 2005, Virtual Reality Therapy for PTSD source

Radio Free Europe, April 5, 2005. U.S./Iraq: Government Tests High-Tech Treatment for U.S. Combat Stress, source

Red Herring, April 7, 2005, Virtual Help for War Stress,source

China View, April 4, 2005, Returning US troops fight combat stress, source

USC Chronicle, April 4, 2005, VR Will Treat Stress in Iraq War Vets, Page 1. source

Associated Press TV, Taped for International Distribution, March 30, 2005

NPR/KPCC, March 29th, 2005.Talk of the City with Kitty Feldy, Interview on ICT PTSD Project. source

CNN Headline News, March 28, 2005, Live Interview VR/PTSD (to see this video segment, please go to our VRPSYCH News page)

USC Daily Trojan, March 29, 2005, Video game used for war stress problem, source

Reuters TV, Taped March 24, 2005.

NPR Talk of the Nation, March 24, 2005, Tales of the War at Home.

Washington Post, March 23, 2005, Recalling Iraq's Terrors Through Virtual Reality, source

Newsweek, March 21, 2005, Spectrum of Options, pg.15 source

Israel 21c: A Focus Beyond the Conflict, March 20, 2005, Israeli researcher at forefront of virtual reality technology. source

The San Diego Union Tribune, March 17, 2005, Military to try virtual combat stress remedy. source

ComputerWorld, March 14, 2005, Virtual therapy: Just what some doctors order. source

Haaretz, March 7, 2005, Virtual reality trauma treatment for terror survivors unveiled. source

The Sydney Morning Herald, March 9, 2005, Virtual reality may aid trauma victims. source

Der Spiegel, Feb. 5, 2005, "Heilung im Cyberspace", pg. 133.

NewsTarget.com, Feb. 9, 2005, Virtual reality programs could help soldiers traumatized by war. source

Wired.com, January 2005, It's not all in your head, source

Reader's Digest, January 2005, Virtual Cures, pp. 148-152.

The Gary Null Radio Talk Hour, December 7, 2004, Memory Enhancement across the Lifespan.

New Hampshire Union Leader, August 5, 2004, Virtual reality lab yields data at St. Anslem

Haaretz (Israeli National Newspaper), March 18, 2004, "Virtual reality helmets help in the treatment of phobias", source

Washingtonian Magazine,March 2004, "New Therapies: What Are You Afraid Of?"

The New York Times, February 19, 2004, "On the Therapist's Couch, a Jolt of Reality" source

Fox News 7, January 12, 2004, "Virtual Healing"

Cross Currents, December, 2003, "Measuring impairment: VR as a diagnostic tool."

Hal Eisner.com, November, 2003, "When Virtual Reality and TV News Reporting Collide!" source

Science News for Kids, October, 2003, "A Classroom of the Mind". source

UPN News 13, September 9, 2003, "360 TV".

ARD - German Public Television, August 26, 2003, Morgenmagazin: "The Future of Television". Communications of the ACM, July 2003, "Making a Game of System Design".

UPN News 13, January 1, 2003, "Social Phobia and Virtual Reality".

FoxNews.com, January 1, 2003, "Therapy Brings Patients to a Virtual World". source

Charlotte Observer, January 2, 2003, "Computer helps conquer fears". source

Israel National Television, November 15, 2002, VR Rehabilitation (Hebrew Language)

Yediot Haraonot, (Israeli Newpaper), December 1, 2002, Feature article on VR and Clinical Psychology (Hebrew - source). (Hebrew Language).

Maariv (Israeli Newspaper), November 14, 2002, VR Rehabilitation (Hebrew Language).

ACF Newsource, November 13, 2002, Party Cam for Social Phobia Treatment

CBS Radio Network - The Osgood File, November 11, 2002, 360 Degree Panoramic video VR applications for anger management and anxiety disorders.

Discovery Channel Canada - The Daily Planet, October 2002.

Education Weekly, September 18, 2002, "Virtual Reality Researchers Target Special Education Classes". source

The Boston Globe, August 24, 2002, Page A-1, "New cure makes talking cure a virtual reality".

ABCNews.com, May 28, 2002, Will Computers Read Your Mind?: Cameras and Software Could Help Machines Interpret Human Emotions.

TechTV, April 2002, Panoramic Video VR for Mental Health Treatment.

NBC News Channel 4-Washington D.C., March 15, 2002, Panoramic Video VR and Anger Management. Part of a segment on the Smithsonian exhibition by the National Collegiate Innovation and Invention Alliance that included our work.

Syndicated News TV Broadcast, March, 2002, Automated facial action interpretation of emotional state.

USC Chronicle, October 1, 2001, "Television, like the earth, isn't flat: Panoramic Video Technology"

Today: Publication by the Council for Exceptional Children, September 2001, Vol. 8(3) "Where are we in Special Education Today?"

Enabledonline, Sept. 2001, Technology Improves Special Education source

Los Angeles Weekly, August 24, 2001, Tech Life-Raiding the Holodeck.

APA Monitor, May 2001, "On the Record" regarding memory enhancement and aging.

National Public Radio, May, 2001. Interviewed on "Computer Automated Interaction and Therapy" for regular weekly feature: "The Infinite Mind".

Discovery Health Channel, May 7, 2001 (first airdate). SheTV Feature on VR and Children with ADHD.

Next Generation Magazine, May 7, 2001 Article on Interactive Gaming and Cognition.

Chicago Daily Herald (syndicated article). "Exercising memory can strengthen it," By Denise Hamilton source

Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Japanese equivalent of the Wall Street Journal). March 21, 2001 "Virtual Mental Health" by Aya Furuta.

Tech TV, March 9, 2001, "ADHD and Video Games" source

Computer Graphics World, March, 2001, "Virtual Reality Applications in Mental Health".

Salon.com, January 2001, "The Virtual Reality Shrink", source

Discovery Health Channel, January 2001, Documentary on "Virtually Healed"

USC Trojan Family Magazine, Winter 2000, "A Cyber - Alternative to Ritalin?". Pg.19.

Chronicle of Higher Education, September 22, 2000, "Researchers in medicine and psychology explore uses of virtual reality".

ESchool News, October 2000, "Researcher aims to diagnose and cure ADHD through Virtual Reality"

NBC Nightly News, 8/19/2000, "Virtual Reality and ADHD"

Washington Post, 8/14/2000, "A Virtual Class Act" pg. A7 or source

Hollywood Reporter, 7/21-23/2000, "Virtual Reality: Under Construction" pg. 8-11,15

Time Magazine, 2/28/2000, "Speak, Memory", G1 - G3.

Associated Press, 7/2000, "Curing Phobias with a Touch of Reality".

USC Daily Trojan, 9/8/1999, "Virtual Reality Tests Spatial Abilities" pg. 2.

USC Trojan Family Magazine, Summer/1999, "Gender Bender in Cyberspace", pg.14. Or at: source

BBC World Service, 5/1999, "SoundByte" Virtual Reality

Science Daily, 3/18/1999, "Virtual Reality Finding a Role in Psychological Evaluation"

USC Chronicle, 2/8/1999, "A Key Gender Difference Vanishes in Cyberspace" pg.1.

Computer Graphics World, 12/1997, "Virtual Therapy Nets Real Results" pg. 52-58, 80

APA Monitor, 3/1996, "How do people's reaction to VR compare to those in real life" pg. 24

Virtual Reality: Special Reports, 1/1996, "Rethinking Tools that Teach Thinking" pg. 11-12.