virtual reality and neurological rehabilitation

Virtual reality can help people with brain injuries to restore their ability to perform elementary activities by retraining damaged brain areas or helping patients to learn to use new areas. Virtual reality can train people who have lost some sensory functions for directional assistance in an unfamiliar place by first exposing them to a virtual (e.g. sonic and kinesthetic) layout of that setting. Linked page GT-360 Virtual Tours also writes about related technologies.

Virtual reality is used for medical instruction and research. With virtual visual and haptic systems, interns and residents can learn how patients with unusual conditions look, feel, and respond to healing -- absent the risks of harming real patients. Advanced kinesthetic systems enable physicians-in-training to not only observe experts in practice, but also to move their hands in tandem with the recorded motions of top clinical experts. In medical study, virtual reality is used for modeling molecules and drug design, genomics modeling and manipulation, and other virtual biology uses. For virtual reality interesting information, please also see Virtual Tours Mound, Minnesota .

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