NomNomStudy shows that digital treatment with Tetris gameplay can dramatically reduce trauma memories
CrackhappyWow:
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.
FiniteBanjoIt’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 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.
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
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Fuck off, dude, you expect me to treat you seriously when you defend a company that commodified mental illness?
You said the only bad thing about it was low efficacy. Fuck you.
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