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Newest in this topic

  1. Virtual navigation tested on a mobile app is predictive of real-world wayfinding navigation performance 2018-04-22
  2. A pilot study and brief overview of rehabilitation via virtual environment in patients suffering from dementia 2018-01-01

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2018

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  • Psychiatrike = Psychiatriki 1
  • bioRxiv 1

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  1. Virtual navigation tested on a mobile app is predictive of real-world wayfinding navigation performance

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. bioRxiv 2018-04-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Virtual reality environments presented on tablets and smartphones have potential to aid the early diagnosis of conditions such as Alzheimer’s dementia by quantifying impairments in navigation performance.

  2. A pilot study and brief overview of rehabilitation via virtual environment in patients suffering from dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Psychiatrike = Psychiatriki 2018-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    According to the existing literature, subjecting patients to various neuro-rehabilitative conditions within 3D virtual environments, allows them to obtain significant therapeutic benefits in which both transferability and durations over time are observed, in relation to the training period of the intervention.

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