Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Post-traumatic stress disorder: alleviating flashbacks by playing Tetris

(Ruhr-University Bochum) A behavioural intervention procedure including the computer game Tetris could help people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to alleviate involuntarily recurring visual memories of traumatic experiences. This is the conclusion reached by a team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum together with a researcher from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden following a study of 20 inpatients with PTSD. Following an intervention involving playing Tetris, the number of flashbacks for the stressful events decreased.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://bit.ly/2TBzsFn

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