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Marta Iraola Iribarren

Playing Tetris reduces intrusive trauma memories, research finds

By keeping the brain busy playing Tetris, intrusive memories cannot find a way in, thereby alleviating trauma, new research has found.

The study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, focused on treating intrusive, vivid, and unwanted memories of trauma, a core symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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