A follow-up to a 2009 experiment which revealed therapeutic benefits of Tetris confirmed the study’s finding and revealed a few new facts of its own.
Last year, Emily Holmes, a researcher at Oxford University, demonstrated that playing Tetris helped prevent the formation of unwanted memories, such as those of a particularly acute trauma. Holmes subjected volunteers to graphic images and had some of them play Tetris afterward. Those that played the game had fewer disturbing memories of the images than the control group… …