Random sequences of tetrominoes, or tetrads, fall onto a playing field. The premise of the game is fairly simple. ( Tetra is also any of the tropical freshwater fishes of the genus Hemigrammus.) Tetra is a Greek numerical prefix meaning “four,” and tennis was the game designer’s sport of choice. Pajitnov derived the name Tetris by combining Greek with the name of his favorite sport. Over a hundred million copies of the game have been sold for cell phones alone. Many consider it to be the greatest game of all time. While working at the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow, Alexey Pajitnov designed and programmed Tetris, which was released in 1984. While the research is fascinating, let’s turn our attention to the word. They think that the game may help to prevent the flashbacks that occur in the early stages of post-traumatic stress disorder. “It would make a huge difference to a great many people if we could create simple behavioral psychological interventions using computer games to prevent post-traumatic suffering and spare them these grueling intrusive memories.”Īs a month is the shortest time after which a PTSD diagnosis can be made, further research is needed on larger patient groups to see if the psychological benefits of interventions, such as playing Tetris persist for a longer time.For over two decades, the puzzle video game Tetris has provided countless hours of procrastination and enjoyment for players all over the globe.īut now, researchers believe that Tetris might have a new purpose. “Anyone can experience trauma,” said Emily Holmes, a professor of psychology at Karolinska Institutet’s Department of Clinical Neuroscience, who led the study. This fit the researchers’ hypothesis that playing Tetris, a visually demanding game, could prevent the intrusive aspects of the traumatic memories from becoming consolidated in the mind. They also found that the intrusive memories diminished more quickly. The researchers found that those who played Tetris as part of the experience had fewer intrusive memories of the trauma in total over the week immediately following the accident than the other group.
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