How Virtual Reality Affects The Brain (Part 2)
Channel: The ScienceVerse
Date: 2019-04-20

How Virtual Reality Affects The Brain (Part 1): https://youtu.be/Qlyl_qCMO5M

Background from first video:

Virtual Reality is becoming a big thing in gaming with things like The Oculus Rift coming out, and videos like pewdiepie's -”KILL YOURSELF IN VR !”video are going viral. However I'm more interested in the neuroscience of Virtual Reality ,some potential applications for virtual reality, and how the brain reacts to Virtual Reality, so I did a little research and decided to share the results with you.


Virtual Reality has a lot of promise in the world of neuroscience especially when it comes to healing the Brain and body of physiological and psychological ailments. From helping us regain simple functions like speaking to healing our pain we will take a look at some of the medical miracles Virtual Reality is helping us achieve and how it manages to make such amazing strides.
 
questions this video answers:


How Virtual Reality affects the brain?

Is VR bad for your brain ?

This video also features our good friend Trace Dominguez  from seeker formerly known as DNews!
Sources:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5964310/



http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/brains-reaction-to-virtual-reality-should-prompt-further-study-suggests-new-research-by-ucla-neuroscientists



https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5574359/



https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4616145/



https://depts.washington.edu/hplab/research/virtual-reality/



https://www.brain.northwestern.edu/pdfs/Disease%20Summaries/mci.pdf



https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4853649/


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