Abstract Purpose of Review This review provides an overview of current methods and
important aspects to consider when applying virtual worlds in the treatment of social anxiety …

Virtual Reality (VR) has emerged as a promising tool in the treatment of anxiety disorders,
particularly for exposure-based interventions. This literature review summarizes recent …

Background: Enhanced self-focused attention plays a central role in the maintenance and
treatment of Social Anxiety and is targeted in contemporary cognitive behavioral therapy …

The vagus nerve is a key physical constituent of the gut–brain axis. Increasing attention has
recently been paid to the role that the gut, and the microorganisms inhabiting it, play in …

There is a growing interest in the potential benefits of attentional bias modification (ABM)
training in chronic pain patients. However, studies examining the effectiveness of ABM …

Antibiotics are among the most commonly prescribed medications worldwide, yet research
in recent years has revealed the detrimental effect they can have on the human microbiome …

The present study compared an immersive virtual reality‐based attentional bias modification
(immersive VR‐ABM) with the desktop version of the VR‐ABM and an immersive virtual …

Background Attentional bias modification (ABM) aims to reduce anxiety by attenuating bias
towards threatening information. The current study incorporated virtual reality (VR) …

People vary in emotional disposition. Partly, this reflects variation in external circumstances—
however, it also reflects individual differences in the operation of emotion regulation …

This dissertation describes a way of organising the ample existing evidence in the field of
digital mental health. For that purpose the DIU framework is presented (D for dissemination, I …