Toys Tetris Can Heal Trauma

If you want to give the game to the victims of natural disasters to heal traumatic experiences Tetris choose a toy. This toy is more potent to overcome stress disorder due to traumatic experiences than snake ladder game.

Researchers from Oxford University, Emily Holmes proved that after conducting two experiments. The first experiment involved 60 participants while the second involved 75 participants, all were adults in good health.

In the first experiment, participants were told to watch movies featuring scenes of death and violence. After 30 minutes the movie ended, participants were divided into 3 groups with different treatments.

The first group played Tetris for 10 minutes, group 2 play games themed quizzes and final group did not do anything. Over the next few weeks, participants were asked to keep a diary about the emergence of bad memories from the movie.

The second experiment conducted in the same way, only the number of participants involved more. The difference this time participants were given a longer interval since the movie ended, ie, 2 hours.

Quoted from WebMD, Friday (12/11/2010), both of these experiments prove that the participants who play Tetris less experienced bad memories.

Researchers suspect arranging puzzle game Tetris can balance the two channels in the brain, ie, sensory canals and canal conceptual. Traumatic events usually make the activity more active sensory canals so prone to bad memories.