Study: Play Tetris Can Remove Bad Memories

Oxford - Tetris, the game in the form of simple beams including perhaps the most popular types of games. Not only fun to play, researchers in the UK revealed that playing Tetris may also help reduce the effects of trauma.

The findings are believed to be a means of new therapies for victims of accidents or casualties of war. Dr Emily Holmes of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford said, the research they are doing is just the first step to prevent the symptoms of post traumatic stress.

Reported by the Telegraph, and we quoted, Oxford University researchers said, playing Tetris after a traumatic experience is able to remove a bad memory and reduce stress levels.

Afterward, half of the volunteers played Tetris via computer and the other half did not play. Revealed that those who played Tetris little longer to recall the traumatic images.

Published in the journal Public Library of Science One, the study involved 40 volunteers. Initially, they were asked to look at pictures traumatic stressful.

Tetris selected as research subjects because the game is considered to consume most of the human mind. The researchers doubt whether video games besides Tetris also have the same benefits.

Dr Holmes and colleagues believe, the game Tetris helps the brain to block a bad memory storage and painful. Condition, the person should immediately plays after experiencing a trauma.

Meanwhile, the frustration of playing games, A Teen Threatens suicid*e,.

A teen addict online game World of Warcraft are suicidal. Garanya, he admitted frustration playing the game made by Blizzard Entertainment.

Quoted from TheInquirer us, in order to prevent undesirable incidents, the customer service was swiftly contacted police WoW. The existence of the teens then tracked by IP address.

Ohio Teens age 17 the vent online with a customer service WoW that her life is just to play WoW marathon. But lately it frustrating game so he said he would kill himself.

Cash police arrested him on charges of causing panic. The teenage fans unnamed WoW is going through court proceedings.

Police managed to sniff out the whereabouts of the teenager who turns in a fine condition. He claimed the threat of suicid*e was just for fun and as a means of forcing the WoW in order to grant his request about the game play.