ON THE CUTTING EDGE: Tetrus Therapy For PTSD
A pilot study by Oxford University researchers suggests that playing the video game Tetris immediately after a traumatic event can reduce flashbacks that plague sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder, reports Reuters. The researchers theorize that recognizing the shapes of the colored building blocks and moving them around in the computer game “competes with the visions of trauma retained in the sensory part of the brain … and may somehow interfere with the way sensory memories are formed in the period following trauma.”
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