Playmancer project: a serious videogame as an additional therapy tool for eating and impulse control disorders.
Reviews and few non-controlled studies showed the effectiveness of several specific designed computer video-games as an additional form of treatment in several areas. However, there is a lack in the literature of specially designed serious-games for treating mental disorders. Playmancer (ICT European initiative) aims to develop and assess a serious videogame that may help to treat underlying processes (e.g. lack of self-control strategies) in Eating and Impulse control disorders. Preliminary data will be shown.
Jiménez-Murcia
Susana
S
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Bellvitge and CIBEROBN, Instituto Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain.
Fernández-Aranda
Fernando
F
Kalapanidas
Elias
E
Konstantas
Dimitri
D
Ganchev
Todor
T
Kocsis
Otilia
O
Lam
Tony
T
Santamaría
Juan J
JJ
Raguin
Thierry
T
Breiteneder
Christian
C
Kaufmann
Hannes
H
Davarakis
Costas
C
D007174:Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders; D006801:Humans; D018910:Video Games