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Playmancer project: a serious videogame as additional therapy tool for eating and impulse control disorders

Susana Jiménez-Murcia1*, Fernando Fernández-Aranda1, Elias Kalapanidas2, Dimitri Konstantas3, Todor Ganchev4, Otilia Kocsis4, Tony Lam5, Juan J. Santamaría1, Thierry Raguin5, Christian Breiteneder6, Hannes Kaufmann6 and Costas Davarakis2
  • 1 University Hospital of Bellvitge and CIBEROBN, Department of Psychiatry, Spain
  • 2 Systema Technologies, Greece
  • 3 University of Geneva, Switzerland
  • 4 Wire Communications Laboratory, University of Patras, Greece
  • 5 Netunion, Switzerland
  • 6 Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Reviews and few non-controlled studies showed the effectiveness of several specific designed computer video-games as 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.

Conference: Annual CyberTherapy and CyberPsychology 2009 conference, Villa Caramora, Italy, 21 Jun - 23 Jun, 2009.

Presentation Type: Poster Presentation

Topic: Abstracts

Citation: Jiménez-Murcia S, Fernández-Aranda F, Kalapanidas E, Konstantas D, Ganchev T, Kocsis O, Lam T, Santamaría JJ, Raguin T, Breiteneder C, Kaufmann H and Davarakis C (2009). Playmancer project: a serious videogame as additional therapy tool for eating and impulse control disorders. Front. Neuroeng. Conference Abstract: Annual CyberTherapy and CyberPsychology 2009 conference. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.14.2009.06.112

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Received: 20 Apr 2009; Published Online: 20 Apr 2009.

* Correspondence: Susana Jiménez-Murcia, University Hospital of Bellvitge and CIBEROBN, Department of Psychiatry, Barcelona, Spain, sjimenez@bellvitgehospital.cat