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“It was so simple, and it worked beautifully,” says Emily Holmes, a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford and an author of a paper published in January on the experiment. She calls Tetris a potential “cognitive vaccine” for P.T.S.D.

The scientists suspect the Tetris vaccine works because flashbacks are registered primarily as visual memories. By playing Tetris right after a trauma, the visual cortex becomes so busy that the brain doesn’t encode the horrific visual imagery in the way that it otherwise might. The Ninth Annual Year in Ideas - Magazine - NYTimes.com

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