Attention-control video game curbs combat vets' PTSD symptoms

Friday, July 24, 2015 - 08:50 in Health & Medicine

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. Researchers conducted parallel trials in which the two treatments were tested in US and Israeli combat veterans.

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