UK Study Shows Tetris Can Help with PTSD

[JMcEntegart]

Tetris helps but the same can not be said of all games.

UK Study Shows Tetris Can Help with PTSD : Read more

 

[Lord Captivus]

Are people getting paid for this? One week study? OMG!! That’s statistically significant!
I particularly like this part:
The second experiment showed that playing Tetris four hours post-film also reduced flashbacks when compared to the no-task group.
If I’m getting this, it says that you can choose to play Tetris 4 hours or don’t do anything...same effect...
Wait, i have more!!
I did a quick reading of the "paper" (link in article), it says that they tested 60 people!! WOW!! 60 people and 1 week!!
Gauss-Jordan is laughing from the grave!

 

[el33t]

True say...

But someone playing tetris on his Alienware 17x is like making his grandma drive his Ferrari....

 

[aftcomet]

[citation][nom]Lord Captivus[/nom]Are people getting paid for this? One week study? OMG!! That’s statistically significant!I particularly like this part:The second experiment showed that playing Tetris four hours post-film also reduced flashbacks when compared to the no-task group.If I’m getting this, it says that you can choose to play Tetris 4 hours or don’t do anything...same effect...Wait, i have more!!I did a quick reading of the "paper" (link in article), it says that they tested 60 people!! WOW!! 60 people and 1 week!! Gauss-Jordan is laughing from the grave![/citation]

Sometimes I think people on Tom's simply comment to try and prove a flaw in everything.

 

[madooo12]

for the gaming community, tetris is boring, I think if I play it too much I'd get PTSD (I don't know what it is)

 

[Prince_Porter]

I play Tetris quite a bit, I'm a rank 93 / 100 in Tetris Battle on Facebook, and enjoy the game quite a bit. I'm a hardcore gamer, but appreciate the simplicity of a fast paced skill game.

As for the study, I'd love to hear numbers on how many people, and how much of an increase or decrease, but it's interesting either way.

 

[DXRick]

There needs to be more testing. Go to the middle east, follow a military caravan around until one gets blown up, and give a handheld Tetris game to one survivor and a lollipop to another to see the difference!

 

[psaus]

I'm all for Tetris... wasted many a hour on that game. But I'm almost certain I read this exact news more than a year ago. Because it was that long ago I can't find out where...
Slow news day... oh wait, Galaxy 3 was released today... hmm. strange.

 

[dannyhaszard]

PTSD treatment for Veterans found ineffective.

Eli Lilly made $65 billion on the Zyprexa franchise.Lilly was fined $1.4 billion for Zyprexa fraud!
The atypical antipsychotics (Zyprexa,Risperdal,Seroquel) are like a 'synthetic' Thorazine,only they cost ten times more than the old fashioned typical antipsychotics.
These newer generation drugs still pack their list of side effects like diabetes for the user.All these drugs work as so called 'major tranquilizers'.This can be a contradiction with PTSD suffers as we are hyper vigilant and feel uncomfortable with a drug that puts you to sleep and makes you sluggish.
That's why drugs like Zyprexa don't work for PTSD survivors like myself.
-Daniel Haszard FMI http://www.zyprexa-victims.com