♪♪♪ “I know the pieces fit, cause I watch them falling down” ♪♪♪
Honestly, the study is so well written you don’t need to read the article:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(25)00397-9/fulltext But glad the article spread the news.
The most reported adverse event (n=7) was COVID-19.
They’re required to report it, but so funny.
What about tetris on mushrooms?
Just replace traumatic memories with falling bricks. 😃
Actually this is effectively how it works.
*patient with PTSD after nearly being crushed by a falling pallet of bricks on a construction site:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH–
Interesting, I feel like I’ve heard about this ‘mental image rotation’ exercise before, though I forget in what context. Pretty cool
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rotating-a-cow-in-mind
I suspect the memes started because research into image rotation got in the news cycle, and the Internet took it from there.
Wow:
After just one month, researchers found a stark reduction in intrusive memories, commonly known as flashbacks, for those using the Tetris-based treatment – ten times fewer than either control group. It remained highly effective after six months, with 70% of participants who received it reporting no intrusive memories at all, even alleviating other PTSD symptoms.
That’s a crazy positive result. Hopefully there is more research into this treatment. My wife still has PTSD and other early childhood trauma related issues that are being treated with NMDR, which is definitely effective, but it sounds like this could potentially accentuate that treatment for a more positive outcome.
Have you ever heard of EMDR therapy? This really reminds me of this. It’s a newer therapy that is geared towards trauma. They do this weird thing where they have the participants move their eyes back and forth while thinking of their trauma. People seem to be torn on whether or not the eye movements themselves help or if it’s just the nature of performing an action while doing so. Kind of sounds like a similar concept to me.
Whoops, that’s exactly what I meant to say, I accidentally typo’d it to NMDR. Yeah, EMDR is an interesting thing that I’m not sure how it works, I just know anecdotally that it works for my wife.
Wow no I’m dumb I somehow skipped that part of the sentence sorry!!!
It’s too good, and its funded by a corporation, and its got a very low sample size, and it’s tied in with some wacky “digital therapy solution”. I wouldn’t be surprised if the control groups actually worsened because the service just sucked and the tetris version included less of that service.
I’ll copy my reply from below as well:
how would it possibly be bad in factors other than efficacy, like BetterHelp was due to data nightmares and advertising a different mechanism? this isn’t even online
99 is a more than enough sample size as this RCT’s Bayes factor is 114 and 15.8 for better efficacy than -control and -regular treatment respectively, which corresponds to “extreme” and “strong evidence” (Lee and Wagenmakers 2013, p. 105; adjusted from Jeffreys, 1961). The Lancet also peer-reviewed the claim “The Bayesian adaptive trial design enabled efficient evaluation with early stopping when convincing evidence was reached (n=99).[2]”
indeed further testing is needed to establish subgroup effects and improve generalizability but this is already quite promising
Fuck off, dude, you expect me to treat you seriously when you defend a company that commodified mental illness?
i have never supported or defended BetterHelp
You said the only bad thing about it was low efficacy. Fuck you.
that was the opposite of what i meant; sorry i was unclear. when I said “how would it possibly be bad in factors other than efficacy, like BetterHelp was due to data nightmares and advertising a different mechanism” i meant that BetterHelp had many reasons it was bad other than efficacy like data nightmares and advertising a different mechanism, and asked how the tetris treatment would replicate BetterHelp’s notorious woes
I am also treating this one limited study with a huge grain of salt, but I’m an eternal optimist so I hope my pessimism is wrong.
The participants in the study must not be playing tetris the grand master.
The ground-breaking study, funded by Wellcome, carried out a randomised controlled trial of 99 healthcare workers exposed to trauma at work during the Covid-19 pandemic. The results demonstrate huge potential to implement a highly scalable, low intensity, easily accessible digital treatment that could transform how we prevent and treat PTSD for people who have been exposed to trauma worldwide.
NO.
NO NO NO. You don’t get to have 9 in 10 dentists promote some gamified healthcare app to the masses, fuck this. This sounds like the BetterHelp Scam 2.0.
how so? this is a method that would work completely offline and without any form of centralization i can imagine
It’s a study with a very low sample size funded by some corporation and with the intention to normalize “digital treatment” similar to BetterHelp. This has red flags front to back.
how is this digital treatment similar to BetterHelp? how would it possibly be bad in factors other than efficacy, like BetterHelp was due to data nightmares and advertising a different mechanism? this isn’t even online
99 is a more than enough sample size if your RCT’s Bayes factor is 114 and 15.8 for better efficacy than -control and -regular treatment respectively, which corresponds to “extreme” and “strong evidence” (Lee and Wagenmakers 2013, p. 105; adjusted from Jeffreys, 1961). The Lancet also peer-reviewed the claim “The Bayesian adaptive trial design enabled efficient evaluation with early stopping when convincing evidence was reached (n=99).[2]”
indeed further testing is needed to establish subgroup effects and improve generalizability but this is already quite promising
That’s the dumbest shit I ever read.
Oxford was ranked the world’s best research university for 10 years in a row.
What, that Tetris is soothing?
Yes.
Okay.
I’m genuinely shocked at there only being negative comments here. I’m doubtful anyone actually read the article, let alone the study. This is wonderful news and good science, it should be celebrated.
