This project investigates the feasibility, acceptability, and safety of using immersive virtual reality (VR) to simulate psychedelic-like experiences in adults with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). OCD is a chronic and impairing condition characterised by intrusive thoughts, repetitive behaviours, and marked cognitive and behavioural rigidity. A substantial proportion of patients experience...
Contemporary models of psychosis imply that cognitive biases such as the jumping to conclusions (JTC), the bias against disconfirmatory evidence (BADE), and the liberal acceptance (LA) bias play a role in the pathogenesis of delusions. Most of the studies investigating the role of cognitive biases, however, have been conducted with socially neutral or abstract stimuli and have assessed patients...