Magellan Health Services, Inc., the nation's leading manager of behavioral health care, hosted top virtual reality (VR) therapy and anxiety disorder expert Barbara Rothbaum, Ph.D., ABPP, today at the company's annual conference of its clinical and medical leadership team.

By Rob Waters Bloomberg News Stress disorder symptoms were eased in 75 percent of Iraq war veterans who watched three-dimensional images of soldiers on house- to-house searches and heard the sounds of explosions and the Muslim call to prayer.

Dr. Dennis Wood takes patients on what some might consider an odd journey. He starts off leading them to a military compound in Fallujah, Iraq. He then guides them through an Iraqi marketplace before they accompany a patrol through Iraqi homes.

A new clinical tool for assessing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), developed by the Atlanta Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN), the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), and Emory University School of Medicine, could enable researchers to develop better treatments for war veterans suffering from the disabling anxiety disorder.