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How Technology is Keeping Holocaust Survivor Stories Alive Forever
Pinchas Gutter was the first Holocaust survivor to participate in the New Dimensions in Testimony project, a collaboration of the USC Shoah...
Virtual Therapists Help Veterans Open Up About PTSD
WHEN US TROOPS return home from a tour of duty, each person finds their own way to resume their daily lives. But they also, every one, complete a...
VR Could Trick Stroke Victims’ Brains Toward Recovery
Researchers at the University of Southern California are examining how virtual reality could promote brain plasticity and recovery. Read all about...
Virtual Interviewers Prods Veterans to Reveal Post-Traumatic Stress
Talking – to a computer-generated interviewer named Ellie – appears to free soldiers and veterans who served in war zones to disclose symptoms of...
PTSD Treatment: How AI Is Helping Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
The Institute for Creative Technologies at USC got lots of buzz for its original research, and introducing the world to Ellie, a digital diagnostic...
Dr. Skip Rizzo and the Rise of Medical VR Therapy
Once thought to be a technology exclusively for entertainment, virtual reality applications pioneered by Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Ph.D. have provided...
Our Search for Meaning Produces Universal Neural Signatures
In an era dominated by heartbreaking headlines and divisive political rhetoric, a pioneering state-of-the-art brain imaging study reminds us of our...
Reading Stories Creates Universal Patterns in the Brain
New research shows that when we hear stories, brain patterns appear that transcend culture and language. There may be a universal code that...
Scientists Find There is Something Universal About What Occurs in the Brain When It Processes Stories
New brain research by USC scientists shows that reading stories is a universal experience that may result in people feeling greater empathy for each...