Borgnis Francesca, Baglio Francesca, Pedroli Elisa, Rossetto Federica, Uccellatore Lidia, Oliveira Jorge Alexandre Gaspar, Riva Giuseppe, Cipresso Pietro
IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan, Italy.
Department of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2022 Apr 11;13:833136. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.833136. eCollection 2022.
Executive dysfunctions constitute a significant public health problem: their high impact on everyday life makes it a priority to identify early strategies for evaluating and rehabilitating these disorders in a real-life context. The ecological limitation of traditional neuropsychological tests and several difficulties in administering tests or training in real-life scenarios have paved the way to use Virtual Reality-based tools to evaluate and rehabilitate Executive Functions (EFs) in real-life.
This work aims to conduct a systematic review to provide a detailed description of the VR-based tools currently developed for the evaluation and rehabilitation of EFs.
We systematically searched for original manuscripts regarding VR tools and EFs by looking for titles and abstracts in the PubMed, Scopus, PsycInfo, and Web of Science databases up to November 2021 that contained the following keywords "Virtual Reality" AND "Executive function."
We analyzed 301 articles, of which 100 were included. Our work shows that available VR-based tools appear promising solutions for an ecological assessment and treatment of EFs in healthy subjects and several clinical populations.
执行功能障碍构成了一个重大的公共卫生问题：它们对日常生活有很大影响，因此在现实生活背景下确定评估和康复这些障碍的早期策略成为当务之急。传统神经心理学测试的生态局限性以及在现实生活场景中进行测试或训练的一些困难，为使用基于虚拟现实的工具在现实生活中评估和康复执行功能（EFs）铺平了道路。
本研究旨在进行系统综述，以详细描述目前为评估和康复执行功能而开发的基于虚拟现实的工具。
我们通过在截至2021年11月的PubMed、Scopus、PsycInfo和Web of Science数据库中查找标题和摘要，系统地搜索了有关虚拟现实工具和执行功能的原始手稿，这些标题和摘要包含以下关键词“虚拟现实”和“执行功能”。
我们分析了301篇文章，其中100篇被纳入。我们的研究表明，现有的基于虚拟现实的工具似乎是对健康受试者和一些临床人群进行执行功能生态评估和治疗的有前景的解决方案。
