[新知] ScienceDaily-虛擬食物可用於治療？

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Virtual Food Causes Stress in Patients Affected by Eating Disorders

ScienceDaily (July 5, 2010) — Food presented in a virtual reality (VR)
environment causes the same emotional responses as real food. Researchers
writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Annals of General Psychiatry
compared the responses of people with anorexia and bulimia, and a control
group, to the virtual and real-life snacks, suggesting that virtual food can
be used for the evaluation and treatment of eating disorders.

在虛擬實境中的食物也可以造成和真實食物一樣的情緒反應。這篇發表在journal Annals
of General Psychiatry的論文比較了厭食症、暴食症和控制組分別在虛擬以及真實環境中
享用下午茶，研究指出虛擬食物可以被用來評估與治療飲食相關的疾病。

Alessandra Gorini from the Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy, worked
with an international team of researchers to compare the effects of the
exposure to real food, virtual food and photographs of food in a sample of
patients affected by eating disorders. She said, "Though preliminary, our
data show that virtual stimuli are as effective as real ones, and more
effective than static pictures, in generating emotional responses in eating
disorder patients."

研究刺激有真實食物、虛擬食物、照片。結果顯示虛擬食物有著和真實食物相同的效果，
而且強度也比照片來的強。

The 10 anorexic, 10 bulimic and 10 control participants, all women, were
initially shown a series of 6 real high-calorie foods placed on a table in
front of them. Their heart rate and skin conductance, as well as their
psychological stress were measured during the exposure. This process was then
repeated with a slideshow of the same foods, and a VR trip into a
computer-generated diner where they could interact with the virtual version
of the same 6 items. The participants' level of stress was statistically
identical whether in virtual reality or real exposure.

厭食症、暴食症以及控制組分別由10女性參與。會有六種高卡路里食物先擺在桌上並量測
心跳以及皮膚阻抗。接著會有圖片的投影片播放以及可以互動的虛擬實境的食物，不論在
虛擬或者實境與食物接觸，受試者都有相同的壓力反應。

Speaking about the results, Gorini said, "Since real and virtual exposure
elicit a comparable level of stress, higher than the one elicited by static
pictures, we may eventually see VR being used to screen, evaluate, and treat
the emotional reactions provoked by specific stimuli in patients affected by
different psychological disorders."

虛擬食物也許可以幫助我們去監控、評估甚至治療由食物引起的情緒反應的疾病。

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原始網址：
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100705073924.htm

從實驗法來看，
我比較好奇的是這研究似乎沒有counter balance?
那這樣可不可以說是先前的real food的exposure，
造成了後來VR food的效果。

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