Psychiatry XR
Our podcast explores how immersive technology is used in healthcare, focusing primarily on psychiatry. We speak to the companies and people behind medical XR experiences and professional researchers examining the use of this technology for patient care. We also discuss how treatment options will vary as the technology progresses and XR becomes more widely embraced by the healthcare community. Psychiatry XR's three hosts provide distinct perspectives of extended reality and the impact technology has on the healthcare ecosystem: Kim Bullock, M.D. is a practicing clinician in Behavioral Neurology, Neuropsychiatry, and Lifestyle Medicine. She is also a Clinical Professor in the...
Cassie Eng: Using Real-Time Brain Imaging and VR
Cassie Eng, Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, joined Kim Bullock and Faaizah Arshad to discuss her research on developing active VR interventions to foster executive function with neurodiverse populations with a focus on the neural mechanisms underlying behavioral changes using advanced mobile, noninvasive neuroimaging, functional nerves, and her interdisciplinary research bridging cognitive neuroscience, learning sciences, developmental psychology, and human computer interaction to optimize immersive contexts to foster brain and cognitive functioning.
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Hadi Hosseini: Using VR to Detect Early Cognitive Decline
Dr. Kim Bullock and Jessica Hagen speak with Dr. Hadi Hosseini about how researchers are using immersive virtual reality environments to assess memory, navigation, and spatial skills—key cognitive functions often affected early in Alzheimer's disease.
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Using VR to Detect Early Cognitive Decline
Dr. Kim Bullock and Jessica Hagen speak with Dr. Hadi Hosseini about how researchers are using immersive virtual reality environments to assess memory, navigation, and spatial skills—key cognitive functions often affected early in Alzheimer's disease.
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Imogen Bell: Youth Mental Health and Immersive Technology
Dr. Kim Bullock and Jessica Hagen speak with Dr. Imogen Bell about her work as Research Leader at Orygen, the Centre for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, and its development of immersive technologies to advance the understanding and treatment of youth mental health disorders.
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Carolyn Rodriguez: Exploring VR use for OCD and Hoarding Disorder
Kim Bullock and Faaizah Arshad speak with Stanford University's Dr. Carolyn Rodriguez on using virtual reality to treat individuals with obsessive compulsive disorder and hoarding disorder.
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Debra Safer and Cristin Runfola: Utilizing XR to Treat Eating Disorders
Kim Bullock and Jessica Hagen speak with Dr. Debra Safer and Dr. Cristin Runfola about their research and clinical use of extended reality to treat eating and weight disorders at Stanford University.
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Allen Olson-Urtecho: VR for Youth Mental Rehabilitation
Kim Bullock speaks with Allen Olson-Urtecho, Founder of Studio Bahia, about his journey towards creating affordable VR for youth populations and the motivation behind Studio Bahia.
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Eran Orr: XRHealth's VR Offerings, Platform for Clinicians, and Journey into Space
Jessica Hagen speaks with Eran Orr, CEO and Founder of XRHealth, about the power of virtual reality technology, uses for patients and clinicians, and mental health care in space.
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Howard Gurr: Effectively implementing VR in private practice
Kim Bullock and Jessica Hagen speak with Howard Gurr, psychologist who practices in Long Island, New York, about using virtual reality in private practice, the development of companies that are focused on VR for mental/behavioral health, usability of VR, the VR market, and the future of XR.
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Jehoshaphat Allenlyon: Versatile Nigeria-Based XR Developer and His Mental Health Innovation Called Thea
Kim Bullock and Faaizah Arshad speak with Jehoshaphat Allenlyon, a seasoned XR professional with over eight years in software engineering and product design, about his unique journey into the XR space and revolutionary work developing an AI-powered suite called Thea to support remote worker mental health.
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Ceylin Özgür Erzen: Journey into Medicine and XR
Faaizah Arshad speaks with Ceylin Özgür Erzen, aspiring student at the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, about her journey into medical school, exploration of extended reality (XR), and vision for how XR can be used to improve educational outcomes for children and adolescents, including students with neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Chris Brickler: MyndVR's Immersive VR Content for Older Adults
Chris Brickler, CEO and Co-Founder of MyndVR, speaks with Jessica Hagen and Faaizah Arshad about virtual reality content and its therapeutic benefits for senior adults and Veterans.
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Sam Glassenberg: Level Ex's Medical Video Games, and Collaboration with SpaceX
Sam Glassenberg, Founder and CEO of Level Ex, joins Jessica Hagen and Faaizah Arshad to discuss video game technology for doctors, including psychiatrists and neurologists, the benefits and challenges of virtual reality, and Level Ex's ultrasound tool for astronauts.
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Emmanuella Michel: Virtual Reality for Educational Engagement with At-Risk Students
Emmanuella Michel, Ph.D. candidate in Education Technology at Université Laval and Founder of Cogni XR Health, joins Kim Bullock and Jessica Hagen to discuss her journey into the XR space, the need for diverse voices in innovation, and leadership skills that can break down stigma around mental health in the workplace.
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Nanea Reeves: TRIPP's Meditation Platform
Nanea Reeves, CEO and Co-Founder of TRIPP, speaks with Kim Bullock, Jessica Hagen, and Faaizah Arshad about the process of establishing TRIPP, as well as her company's design thinking, evolution, and advice for other up and coming XR companies.
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Barbara O. Rothbaum: Emory Healthcare Veterans Program and VR for PTSD
Kim Bullock and Jessica Hagen discuss virtual reality therapies for PTSD, psychopharmacology and psychotherapy, Rothbaum's company called Virtually Better, and the purpose of the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program.
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Maheen Mausoof Adamson: VR For Traumatic Brain Injury in Veterans & Lessons on Healthcare Leadership
Maheen Mausoof Adamson discusses her varied career, how she first got involved in using virtual reality to diagnose and treat traumatic brain injury in Veteran patients, and key leadership skills to push the field of behavioral health forward.
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Alexandre Dussaud: C2Care's VR-based Therapeutic Offerings
Alexandre Dussaud, clinician psychologist working at C2Care, joins Kim Bullock, Jessica Hagen, and Faaizah Arshad to discuss C2Care's VR-based offerings, available environments that address body dysmorphia, the process of working with patients and physicians to build applications, and plans for 2023.
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Brandon Birckhead: Path to Psychiatry and Exploring the Challenges of XR
Kim Bullock, Jessica Hagen, and Faaizah Arshad chat with Brandon Birckhead, psychiatry resident physician at Johns Hopkins Medicine, about his trajectory into psychiatry, interdisciplinary collaboration among XR stakeholders, and his hope for overcoming the challenges of XR implementation in medicine to improve patient care.
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Margot Paul: Treating Major Depressive Disorder Through VR
Faaizah Arshad and Jessica Hagen join Dr. Margot Paul, clinical psychology postdoctoral fellow at Stanford School of Medicine, to discuss her previous and ongoing research on using VR as a method of engaging in behavioral activation for individuals with depression.
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Sammeli Liikkanen: Finland-based VR Solution for Chronic Pain
Jessica Hagen and Faaizah Arshad speak with Sammeli Liikkanen, Director of Digital Medicine at Orion Corporation in Finland, about their recent digital therapeutics VR software solution for chronic lower back pain and their visions for the future of pain health.
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Emilio Goldenhersch: VR Mindfulness Exposure Therapy for Smoking, Vaping, and Stress
Kim Bullock, Jessica Hagen, and Faaizah Arshad speak with Emilio Goldenhersch, CEO & Co-founder of MindCo Health, on XR technology for smoking cessation and mindfulness in teenagers, and on ways that clinicians can adopt MindCo's offerings.
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Mel Slater: Virtual Body Ownership & Implications of the Metaverse
Kim Bullock, Faaizah Arshad, and Jessica Hagen speak with Mel Slater, a renowned and distinguished Investigator at the University of Barcelona who co-directs the Event Lab, in the Faculty of Psychology. They take a deep-dive into his study on body ownership and conversations with the self, benefits and drawbacks of XR, ways for emerging stakeholders to contribute to this field, and implications of the metaverse.
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Giuseppe Riva: Body Transfer Experiences in XR
Kim Bullock speaks with Giuseppe Riva on the potential of embodied and body transfer experiences in XR and the role that psychiatrists can play in the evolution of XR's use for mental and behavioral health.
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Adam Hutchinson: New Zealand's VR Mental Health Platform
Adam Hutchinson, founder of oVRcome, a New Zealand-based digital health startup, speaks with Jessica Hagen and Faaizah Arshad about a mobile health application that combines self-guided VR exposure therapy and CBT for phobias and social anxiety, and the long-term implications that mobile treatments have for accessibility.
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Amy Hedrick: Cleanbox's Hygiene Product Line
Faaizah Arshad and Jessica Hagen speak with Amy Hedrick, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Cleanbox Technology, about the development of hygiene products for sanitizing XR and immersive devices, and the worldwide applications of these products in various industries.
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Walter Greenleaf: Intersecting Business and Academia to Improve XR
Faaizah Arshad and Jessica Hagen chat with Walter Greenleaf, a neuroscientist and medical technology developer at Stanford University, about the intersection between the academic and business realms in XR, and barriers that need to be addressed to improve patient care.
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Thomas Caruso: VR for Childhood Anxiety Reduction (CHARIOT Program)
Kim Bullock and Faaizah Arshad speak with Dr. Thomas Caruso, Clinical Professor of Pediatric Anesthesia at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford and co-director of the CHARIOT Program. They discuss virtual reality solutions for reducing anxiety in pediatric patients perioperatively, and ways in which the Invincikids nonprofit is supporting immersive technology programs in clinical settings worldwide.
Please note: Stanford University has no affiliation with Invincikids, which is an independent, federal, tax exempt non profit entity.
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Skip Rizzo: VR-Based Exposure Therapy for PTSD in Veteran Populations
Skip Rizzo, clinical psychologist and Director of Medical Virtual Reality at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies, speaks with Kim Bullock, Faaizah Arshad, and Jessica Hagen on using digital technologies and imaginal exposure for PTSD internationally, such as in veteran populations.
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Risa Weisberg: At-Home VR Interventions
Jessica Hagen and Faaizah Arshad speak with Risa Weisberg, Chief Clinical Officer of BehaVR, on the potential for at-home scalability of care options with VR products, with the goal of improving overall immersive technology accessibility.
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Kim Bullock: XR Wearables for Treating Mental Illnesses (Current Uses and Barriers)
In this episode, Kim Bullock M.D. discusses the evolution, current uses, and barriers of using XR wearables in psychiatric care, including for anxiety disorders.
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Josh Sackman: Immersive Pain Treatment & FDA Approval
Faaizah Arshad and Jessica Hagen speak with Josh Sackman, Cofounder and President of AppliedVR, on the immersive uses of a new produce RelieVRx for chronic lower back pain treatment and the steps to attaining FDA approval.
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Elizabeth McMahon: Virtual Reality Therapy for Anxiety and Fear
Kim Bullock M.D., Jessica Hagen, and Faaizah Arshad speak with clinical psychologist Dr. Elizabeth McMahon on virtual reality’s applications for overcoming anxiety and fear, patient responses to immersive therapy, precautions that clinicians should take before implementing it into their own practice, and hopes for the future of XR technology in psychiatric care.
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Brenda Wiederhold: International use of XR
Kim Bullock, M.D., Neuropsychiatrist and Professor at Stanford University, speaks with Clinical Psychologist Brenda Wiederhold on the international and interdisciplinary impacts of virtual reality for psychiatric and behavioral health, including ways to advance collaboration between psychologists and psychiatrists, to promote diversity and inclusion, and to manage conflicts of interest with industry and science.
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Our past, present & future
Psychiatry XR’s hosts provide their background in medical XR, how they currently work in the space, and what they hope you, our listener, gains from this podcast.
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