An article from the internets today about a new study that’s shown that playing Tetris in a certain time window after experiencing something nasty may help reduce flashbacks.  FTFA:

Researchers at Oxford University took 40 healthy volunteers and showed them a film that included traumatic images of injury from several sources, including drink driving advertisements.

After waiting 30 minutes, half the people played Tetris for 10 minutes while the others did nothing.

Those who played the game had far fewer flashbacks to the film over the next week.

Of course, the only way to make this practical is to issue every person in a warzone a DS and Tetris.  Imagine whipping our your portable console and clearing some lines after just seeing your squad get blown up.  Surely that’ll help.

Sarcasm intended.  The power of gaming is awesome but this is just a bit weird.