Playing Tetris and PTSD

http://www.13newsnow.com/story/news/health/2015/07/17/tetris-video-game-may-ease-ptsd-study-suggests/30283397/ A week later, the Tetris players reported far fewer flashbacks over that previous week than their counterparts, and they scored much lower on PTSD questionnaires, according to the report, published July 1 in Psychological Science. “We showed that intrusive memories were virtually abolished by playing the computer game Tetris following memory reactivation,” wrote the…

Neuroimaging Accurately Distinguishes TBI From PTSD

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/848066 “Persons with TBI or PTSD can present with overlapping symptoms, making them challenging to tell apart,” coauthor Cyrus Raji, MD, PhD, from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), told Medscape Medical News. “SPECT imaging can be effectively used in both inpatient and outpatient settings to understand if a patient may have PTSD as…

Limerence – Obsessive love

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerence Limerence (also infatuated love) is a state of mind which results from a romantic attraction to another person typically including compulsive thoughts and fantasies and a desire to form or maintain a relationship and have one’s feelings reciprocated. Psychologist Dorothy Tennov coined the term “limerence” for her 1979 book Love and Limerence: The Experience…

Four steps to manage fear

http://qz.com/450517/us-navy-seals-conquer-fear-using-four-simple-steps/ The mechanism of fear The frontal lobes (part of the neocortex) are responsible with conscious and rational decision making processes. The amygdala is twice as fast in response than the frontal lobes and this sometimes can be misleading. The purpose of the amygdala is to protect, no matter what. There are some fears that…