Katrina Keil, Juliana Baldo, Edith Kaplan, Joel Kramer, Dean C Delis
Role of frontal cortex in inferential reasoning: evidence from the word context test
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS
people incarcerated heightened risk overdose upon community reentry virtual reality vr may provide innovative tool overdose prevention intervention corrections facilities mixed methods study sought understand incarcerated individuals perspectives vr overdose prevention explore physiological arousal associated use vr equipment study participants 20 individuals stratified gender opioid use disorder county jail qualitative interviews assessed acceptability perceived utility vr jail setting thematic analysis indicated high levels acceptability potential utility following areas mental health substance use interventions b community reentry skills training c communication conflict resolution skills heart rate variability hrv data collected continuously interview vr exposure explore whether exposure vr environment provoked arousal physiological data analyses showed significant decrease heart rate hr b 314 t18 385 p 01 arousal measured root mean square successive rr interval differences rmssd b 006 t18 106 p 30 high frequencyhrv hfhrv b 021 t18 171 p 10 study demonstrated high acceptability decreased hr response vr among incarcerated people use drugs