Enhancing Empathy: a Role for Virtual Reality?

Acad Psychiatry. 2018 Dec;42(6):747-752. doi: 10.1007/s40596-018-0995-2. Epub 2018 Oct 15.

Authors

Alan K Louie¹, John H Coverdale², Richard Balon³, Eugene V Beresin⁴, Adam M Brenner⁵, Anthony P S Guerrero⁶, Laura Weiss Roberts⁷

Affiliations

¹ Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. louiemd@stanford.edu.
² Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
³ Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.
⁴ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
⁶ University of Hawai'i John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI, USA.
⁷ Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

PMID: 30324398
DOI: 10.1007/s40596-018-0995-2

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Adult
Attitude of Health Personnel*
Audiovisual Aids*
Empathy*
Humans
Physician-Patient Relations*
Psychiatry / education*
Virtual Reality*