Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Unconventional Approach for PTSD May Expand Treatment Options

In a pilot study, German and Swedish researchers discover playing a specific video game in association with a behavioral intervention program reduced the number of flashbacks associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

A team of researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden used the computer game Trelis, a tile-matching puzzle video game, as an intervention among a group of 20 individuals hospitalized for PTSD. They found the number of...


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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2019/01/09/unconventional-approach-for-ptsd-may-expand-treatment-options/141843.html

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