Can Playing the Computer Game “Tetris” Reduce the Build-Up of Flashbacks for Trauma? A Proposal from Cognitive Science

Emily A. Holmes; Ella L. James; Thomas Coode-Bate; Catherine Deeprose

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004153

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Can Playing the Computer Game “Tetris” Reduce the Build-Up of Flashbacks for Trauma? A Proposal from Cognitive Science

Emily A. Holmes ,

* E-mail: emily.holmes@psych.ox.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Ella L. James,

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Thomas Coode-Bate,

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Catherine Deeprose

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Can Playing the Computer Game “Tetris” Reduce the Build-Up of Flashbacks for Trauma? A Proposal from Cognitive Science

Emily A. Holmes,
Ella L. James,
Thomas Coode-Bate,
Catherine Deeprose

Published: January 7, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004153

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Is there a plan to test this exprerimental treatment against non-visuospatial treatment, such as personal physical and verbal attention? With the trauma being immediate and not film-based?

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