Guests:
- Elliot Ackerman, contributing writer at The Atlantic and Marine veteran who received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart;
- Peter Tamte, founder and CEO of Victura;
- And Defense One science and tech editor Patrick Tucker.
Sources and additional reading:
- “Goodbye, My Brother,” by Elliot Ackerman, writing for Esquire on March 23, 2017;
- The video game “Six Days in Fallujah“;
- “Ultra-Realistic Modern Warfare Game Features Awaiting Orders, Repairing Trucks,” a satirical video produced in January 2011 by The Onion;
- “Virtual reality exposure therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD): a meta-analysis,” published August 2019 in the European Journal of Psychotraumatology;
- “Trauma, treatment and Tetris: video gaming increases hippocampal volume in male patients with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder,” published April 2020 in the Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience;
- And “Putting the Gaming Experience at the Center of the Therapy—The Video Game Therapy® Approach,” published June 2023 in Healthcare.
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