[MIT] Therapists are augmenting eating-disorder treatment with virtual-reality headsets
therapists:(n) [‘θerəpɪst] 心理治療師; 臨床醫學家
augmenting:(v) [ɔ:g’mentiŋ] 增強; 加強
He has to find work to augment his income.
eating-disorder: 飲食失調
treatment:(n) [‘triːtm(ə)nt] 療法
The best treatment for a cold is to rest and drink lots of fluids. 治疗感冒的最佳方法是休息和多喝水.
Though most consumers aren’t yet sure what to do with VR, some psychologists are using it to treat anorexia and bulimia.
psychologists:(n) [saɪ’kɒlədʒɪst] 心理學家
anorexia:(n) [,ænə’reksɪə] 厭食症
bulimia:(n) [bjʊ’lɪmɪə] 暴食症
The details: According to the Wall Street Journal, therapists are using VR along with more standard therapy paractices to ease patients’ body-and food-related issues.
along with sth: 除了某件事之外
therapy:(n) [‘θerəpɪ] 治療; 療法
ease:(v) [iːz] 緩解
He’ll give you something to ease the pain. 他会给你一些药镇痛。
body-and food-related: 等於 body related and food related, 是形容詞詞性
For instance, one doctor combines cognitive behavioral therapy with VR to initially place patients in a relaxing scene. After that, he uses VR to show them an environment that will be more stressful, like a restaurant, and helps them work through any anxiety.
combine sth with VR: 把某事和VR結合起來
cognitive:(a) [‘kɒɡnɪtɪv] 認知的
congnitive behavioral therapy: 認知行為治療法(一種談話治療法)
anxiety:(n) [æŋ’zaɪətɪ] 焦慮
Does it help? A meta-analysis from French and Australian researchers, which was published in April, looked at 26 previous studies and found they indicate that VR is “an acceptable and promising therapeutic tool” for eating-disorder patients.
meta-analysis: 元分析(將多個研究結果整合再一起的統計方法)
therapeutic:(a) [,θerə’pjuːtɪk] 治療的
Some claim that the herb has therapeutic value for treating pain. 有些人称这种草药具有止痛的疗效.
Might make sense: VR has rapidly gotten better and cheaper; you can buy a self-contained Oculus Go headset for $199. As VR technology improves, virtual situations will get more realistic while staying far easier to control than real-world settings. And there’s already precedent for using VR for better health: the technology has long been studied for its potential as a painkiller, for instance.
self-contained:(a) 自給自足的, 若是形容公寓則表示該公寓有自己的廚房和浴廁, 這裡是描述 Oculus 的頭戴設備齊全.
precedent:(n) [‘presɪd(ə)nt] 先例, 前例 {(a) 在先的; 在前的}. break with precedent: 開先例, unprecedented(a) 史無前例的
There’s no precedent for life beyond Earth, we only have Earth Brand Life to work with. 并没有地球外生命存在的先例，我们也只和“地球制造”的生命一起工作。
painkiller:(n) [‘peɪnkɪlə] 止痛藥