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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

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Visual media designer Drew Fast of the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning uses a virtual reality headset with the help of social work professor Rosalba Hernandez. Fast and Hernandez co-wrote a study that explored hemodialysis patients using a virtual reality program on mindfulness/meditation to alleviate the physical side effects and monotony of their treatments.

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Photo by Becky Ponder, U. of I. School of Social Work

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