{"id":54,"date":"2009-01-07T15:01:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T14:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=54"},"modified":"2009-01-07T15:10:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T14:10:02","slug":"ptsd-tetris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/01\/07\/ptsd-tetris\/","title":{"rendered":"Chip off the Old Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would appear that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0004153;jsessionid=A4D60750319D83E260ABA17E10DDD623\">games like Tetris may help in the treatment of PTSD<\/a> &#8211; there&#8217;s apparently a six-hour period in which traumatic memories become consolidated, so something like Tetris, in effect, allows the brain to be distracted for a time, thus reducing the consolidation.\u00a0 Hence<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[p]laying \u201cTetris\u201d after viewing traumatic material reduces unwanted, involuntary memory flashbacks to that traumatic film, leaving deliberate memory recall of the event intact.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a bit more on this <a href=\"http:\/\/newsvote.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/7813637.stm\">via the BBC<\/a>.\u00a0 And, reliably, posters to the b3ta community have been quick off the block doing intelligent and witty stuff with the story.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.b3ta.com\/board\/9072333\">This one<\/a>\u00a0is by Bela Lugosi&#8217;s Dad.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would appear that games like Tetris may help in the treatment of PTSD &#8211; there&#8217;s apparently a six-hour period in which traumatic memories become consolidated, so something like Tetris, in effect, allows the brain to be distracted for a time, thus reducing the consolidation.\u00a0 Hence [p]laying \u201cTetris\u201d after viewing traumatic material reduces unwanted, involuntary [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/01\/07\/ptsd-tetris\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[317],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}