How are doctors treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in veterans that have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan? By sending them back, virtually. VR therapy was first used in the 1990s to treat Vietnam vets. Of course, that was more than 20 years after the fact. The hope is, that by applying this method as soon as veterans return home (or even while they are still deployed), VR therapy will be more successful. The latest program uses high-resolution goggles and head phones to overpower the patients' senses, bombarding them with a recreation of a real-life trauma event. One thing's for sure, this is no video game.
