Attention-control video game curbs combat vets' PTSD symptoms

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/niom-avg072315.php

Public Release: 24-Jul-2015
NIH/National Institute of Mental Health

A computerized attention-control training program significantly reduced combat veterans' preoccupation with - or avoidance of -- threat and attendant PTSD symptoms. By contrast, another type of computerized training, called attention bias modification - which has proven helpful in treating anxiety disorders - did not reduce PTSD symptoms. NIMH and Israeli researchers conducted parallel trials in which the two treatments were tested in US and Israeli combat veterans.

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