Just replace traumatic memories with falling bricks. 😃
Actually this is effectively how it works.
I’m genuinely shocked at there only being negative comments here. I’m doubtful anyone actually read the article, let alone the study. This is wonderful news and good science, it should be celebrated.
Interesting, I feel like I’ve heard about this ‘mental image rotation’ exercise before, though I forget in what context. Pretty cool
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rotating-a-cow-in-mind
I suspect the memes started because research into image rotation got in the news cycle, and the Internet took it from there.
♪♪♪ “I know the pieces fit, cause I watch them falling down” ♪♪♪
Honestly, the study is so well written you don’t need to read the article:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(25)00397-9/fulltext But glad the article spread the news.
The most reported adverse event (n=7) was COVID-19.
They’re required to report it, but so funny.
Wow:
After just one month, researchers found a stark reduction in intrusive memories, commonly known as flashbacks, for those using the Tetris-based treatment – ten times fewer than either control group. It remained highly effective after six months, with 70% of participants who received it reporting no intrusive memories at all, even alleviating other PTSD symptoms.
That’s a crazy positive result. Hopefully there is more research into this treatment. My wife still has PTSD and other early childhood trauma related issues that are being treated with NMDR, which is definitely effective, but it sounds like this could potentially accentuate that treatment for a more positive outcome.
Have you ever heard of EMDR therapy? This really reminds me of this. It’s a newer therapy that is geared towards trauma. They do this weird thing where they have the participants move their eyes back and forth while thinking of their trauma. People seem to be torn on whether or not the eye movements themselves help or if it’s just the nature of performing an action while doing so. Kind of sounds like a similar concept to me.
Whoops, that’s exactly what I meant to say, I accidentally typo’d it to NMDR. Yeah, EMDR is an interesting thing that I’m not sure how it works, I just know anecdotally that it works for my wife.
It’s too good, and its funded by a corporation, and its got a very low sample size, and it’s tied in with some wacky “digital therapy solution”. I wouldn’t be surprised if the control groups actually worsened because the service just sucked and the tetris version included less of that service.
I am also treating this one limited study with a huge grain of salt, but I’m an eternal optimist so I hope my pessimism is wrong.
That’s the dumbest shit I ever read.
Oxford was ranked the world’s best research university for 10 years in a row.
They also started shilling AI recently. Unfortunately, all good things come to an end.
The ground-breaking study, funded by Wellcome, carried out a randomised controlled trial of 99 healthcare workers exposed to trauma at work during the Covid-19 pandemic. The results demonstrate huge potential to implement a highly scalable, low intensity, easily accessible digital treatment that could transform how we prevent and treat PTSD for people who have been exposed to trauma worldwide.
NO.
NO NO NO. You don’t get to have 9 in 10 dentists promote some gamified healthcare app to the masses, fuck this. This sounds like the BetterHelp Scam 2.0.
