{"id":2405,"date":"2005-06-22T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2016-09-21T16:36:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T21:36:49","slug":"banned-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/22\/banned-in-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2005\/06\/22\/IRAQ.TMP\" target=\"_new\">A story<\/a> about a biofeedback video game as part of therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once a week, Pfc. Joshua Frey, a Marine who spent several months in Fallujah before he was shot Dec. 12, heads to a darkened office in the Naval Medical Center here and places a headset over his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>He attaches biofeedback sensors to his arms, hands and chest, grabs hold of a joystick and enters a video game version of the Iraq war. As he moves through a &#8220;virtual&#8221; Fallujah, he encounters sniper fire, explosions and insurgents lurking in shadows. A Navy psychologist checks readouts from a flat-screen monitor showing the Marine&#8217;s heart rate, breathing, hand perspiration and skin temperature.<\/p>\n<p>But for Frey and the U.S. military, this is no game. It is part of a potentially groundbreaking approach to treating the effects of severe combat stress, in Iraq and elsewhere. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A game with explosions and gun fire that&#8217;s designed to make people saner?  Surely, Illinois Governor &#8220;Bod&#8221; Blagojevich&#8217;s head must be spinning, pending a catastrophic failure akin to supercomputers whose logic circuits Captain Kirk fried routinely through paradox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story about a biofeedback video game as part of therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: Once a week, Pfc. Joshua Frey, a Marine who spent several months in Fallujah before he was shot Dec. 12, heads to a darkened office in the Naval Medical Center here and places a headset over his eyes. He attaches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15665,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/15665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}