The video game Tetris may reduce flashbacks

Posted on: Sunday, 14 November 2010, 07:45 CST

"Researchers have found that the video game Tetris may reduce flashbacks or traumatic events in a way that other kinds of games cannot.
Tetris involves moving and rotating shapes falling down a playing field with the goal of creating horizontal lines of blocks without gaps.
Scientists at Oxford University in England found that playing Tetris after traumatic events could reduce flashbacks in healthy volunteers.  The hope of this research is to reduce the painful memories linked with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...." read here