Avatar Therapy Helps Silence Schizophrenia’s Voices
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People with schizophrenia who didn’t respond to medication learned to control hallucinatory voices with the aid of a computer program that used an avatar of their imagined persecutor in a study by U.K. researchers.
The Wellcome Trust, the world’s second-largest biomedical charity, said today it is giving scientists at University College London and King’s College London 1.3 million pounds ($2 million) to test the avatar therapy in more patients.