Age

18–65

Sex

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Not accepted

Diagnosis of schizophrenia made by the treating psychiatrist and corroborated by a team's psychiatrist under CIE-10 criteria.
Age between 18 to 65 years-old.
Outpatient setting,
Clinical stability defined as no psychiatric hospitalizations in the last 6 months and not currently on queue for psychiatric hospitalization.
No concomitant active substance abuse disorder, excluding nicotine.
Subjects are capable of providing informed consent.

Previous diagnosis of learning disability according either to ICD- 10 or clinical history
Verbal expression difficulties, determined by language or medical causes.
Deafness and/or blindness.
Other physical handicaps to use VR devices.
Predominant positive symptoms, defined as PANNS-C \> 0.
Catatonic symptoms.
Previous epilepsy diagnosis.
Neurodegenerative disease.

Effect of Virtual Reality-based Therapy on Negative Symptoms in People with Schizophrenia