Playing the video game Tetris can significantly reduce a hallmark symptom of PTSD- unpleasant and intrusive memories of a traumatic event. The corresponding study was published in BMC Medicine. Tetris ...

I spent an alarmingly large chunk of 1989 trying to align a falling shower of digital building blocks into perfect rows of 10. The Russian video game Tetris had just caught on in the States. Like many ...

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After a traumatic experience, victims and witnesses often struggle with intrusive memories. These powerful, painful images from the event pop into victims’ heads seemingly out of nowhere. This symptom ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

What do you do with 18 iPads and some remedial stop-motion expertise? You do what the guys over at iPStand did and play Tetris with them, complete with a chiptune cover of Korobieniki playing in the ...

Volunteers were exposed to distressing images, with some given the game to play 30 minutes later, the PLoS One journal reported. Players had fewer "flashbacks", perhaps because it helped disrupt the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A new study finds that playing Tetris for ...

Chris Littlechild (He/Him) is an Editor and Writer Trainer from the United Kingdom. He has been gaming since receiving an original Game Boy and copies of Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2: Six ...

Tetris, a game we all spent many a years playing in the back of classrooms, on the top of toilets and so forth, has never been played like this. Artist Chris Carlson created a 3D chalk art version of ...