Then they asked half of them to play Tetris, while the other half apparently did nothing. In Oxford, that probably means reading a little Dostoyevsky while sipping a Pimms.

The Tetris players apparently suffered significantly fewer nasty memories of those ugly images than did those who were left idle. The researchers are extrapolating that this might help people deal with post- traumatic stress disorder.

I guess that 'framing' a traumatic memory at cortical level helps, maybe related to the very old idea that watching horror movies, speculatibe fiction etc give shape and therefore ameliorate some of our more primitive fears.

I think anything that brings people into living in the moment as opposed to living in the past or the future can have positive effects psychologically and physicaly
I just got into games on my itouch recently
And they're a great distraction from reality
Everything in moderation
Balance is important