Trauma, treatment and Tetris: video gaming increases hippocampal volume in male patients with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder | Zendy

Oisín Butler | Zendy; Kerstin Herr | Zendy; Gerd Willmund | Zendy; Jürgen Gallinat | Zendy; Simone Kühn | Zendy; Peter Zimmermann | Zendy

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Trauma, treatment and Tetris: video gaming increases hippocampal volume in male patients with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder

Author(s) -

Oisín Butler,

Kerstin Herr,

Gerd Willmund,

Jürgen Gallinat,

Simone Kühn,

Peter Zimmermann

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

journal of psychiatry and neuroscience

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.767

H-Index - 99

eISSN - 1488-2434

pISSN - 1180-4882

DOI - 10.1503/jpn.190027

Subject(s) - eye movement desensitization and reprocessing , anxiety , hippocampal formation , psychology , cognition , desensitization (medicine) , video game , eating disorders , cognitive therapy , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , posttraumatic stress , neuroscience , multimedia , receptor , computer science

Tetris has been proposed as a preventative intervention to reduce intrusive memories of a traumatic event. However, no neuroimaging study has assessed Tetris in patients with existing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or explored how playing Tetris may affect brain structure.

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