quarta-feira, 29 de março de 2017

Sabíamos que fazia bem (Tetris)

... não sabíamos? Tetris ajuda a prevenir Stress pós-traumático (PTSD em Inglês) numa janela de 6 horas após o evento (exemplo um acidente):
http://nypost.com/2017/03/28/researchers-say-playing-tetris-can-prevent-ptsd/

Citando:
"Gamers who spend hours gazing at the falling pieces end up seeing them also in their thoughts and dreams – a phenomenon dubbed the “Tetris effect,” which can ease the impact of traumatic events.

Her team at the University of Oxford gave Tetris therapy to 71 volunteer patients at John Radcliff Hospital suffering from shock after traffic accidents. They were asked to visualize their accidents and then play the game on a Nintendo console.

After 20 minutes, disturbing memories of the events stopped being formed.

“Our findings suggest that if you engage in very visually demanding tasks soon after a trauma, this can help block or disrupt the memory being stored in an overly vivid way,” Holmes said.

There is a roughly a six-hour window of opportunity after a traumatic event for such an intervention to succeed, she noted."