Mind Games: Mental Health and Virtual Reality

At a VA hospital in New York, veterans are being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder inside a virtual reality simulator.

Virtual reality simulations are being used to treat soldiers with a kind of therapy that predates the technology.

New gaming technology could change the way autistic children learn social communication.

Video games can help people on and off the autism spectrum interact physically and socially.

Kara Stone, an artist and video game designer, talks about her video game "Medication Meditation," which explores what it's like to have a mental illness by recreating the therapy process.