Since 9/11, nearly three million service members have deployed to war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan—about half of them more than once.
Now, an innovative, evidence-based approach to treating PTSD is reaching more veterans than ever before. Called “virtual reality exposure therapy,” it heals by transporting the veteran back to the traumatic war event, into a computer-generated, parallel universe created in a Southern California lab.
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