{"id":4117,"date":"2026-02-25T14:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/tetris-may-cure-ptsd\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:03:15","slug":"tetris-may-cure-ptsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/tetris-may-cure-ptsd\/","title":{"rendered":"Tetris may cure PTSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2026-02-25 14:03:13<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Playing Tetris could cure Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).<BR><br \/>\nThe study &#8211; carried out in the UK and Sweden &#8211; involved imagery competing task intervention (ICTI), a treatment designed to reduce the amount of intrusive, traumatic memories by individuals doing cognitive activities, such as Tetris.<BR><br \/>\nSome 40 patients played a slow version of Tetris while they experienced a flashback, and were instructed to think of the game&#8217;s grid and to visualise the multi-coloured blocks.<BR><br \/>\nWithin four weeks, the results showed that those under the ICTI treatment had 10 times fewer flashbacks to those who did not have the treatment.<BR><br \/>\nAnd after six months, Tetris left 70 per cent of PTSD sufferers symptom-free.<BR><br \/>\nEmily Holmes, Professor of Psychology at Uppsala University in Sweden, said: &#8220;Even a single, fleeting intrusive memory of past trauma can exert a powerful impact in daily life by hijacking attention and leaving people at the mercy of unwanted and intrusive emotions.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;By weakening the intrusive aspect of these sensory memories via this brief visual intervention, people experience fewer trauma images flashing back.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026-02-25 14:03:13 Playing Tetris could cure Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The study &#8211; carried out in the UK and Sweden &#8211; involved imagery competing task intervention (ICTI), a treatment designed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4119,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions\/4119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}