There’s an interesting article up at BBC News talking about research at Oxford University using Tetris of all things to combat the effects of PTSD.
I do find while playing games like Tetris, Pac-Man and Zuma that my mind does tend to ’switch-off’ as I focus entirely on the game at hand, so I’m not that sceptical about the claim myself.
What about yourself, video games as therapy, what do you think?
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January 7th, 2009 at 2:24 pm UTC
Heh – makes me wish I’d had a crappy cel phone when I had juvenile PTSD…
May 12th, 2009 at 9:59 pm UTC
So…is there gonna be another update coming?
June 5th, 2009 at 8:43 pm UTC
I think that my inability to get even a mediocre score in those games causes far more stress than it might reduce…