Florian Ramousse
ABSTRACT
Food craving is a main pathological issue in Eating Disorders (ED), associated with binge eating such as bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. Common therapies are currently based on Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies (CBT). However, a significant number of patients are not receptive to conventional CBTs.
Virtual Reality (VR) is now used as a variant of CBTs, especially VR based cue exposure therapy, but only food triggers are generally considered in this form of therapy. In this context, we developed the ReVBED environment: a semi-directed VR exposure scenario allowing the induction of food craving by including multimodal stimuli. The proposed paper presents the REVBED environment and scenario, and the planned clinical study of which aim is to evaluate its effectiveness for inducing food cravings in bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder patients, with subjective and objective measurements.
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Index Terms
- ReVBED : A semi-guided virtual environment for inducing food craving in a binge-eating therapy process
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