CALMING EFFECT: Could smartphone gaming play a role in treating anxiety while on the move? — ©AFP/Relaxnews 2014
New research published in the journal Clinical Psychological Science found playing a scientific-based mobile gaming app for 25 minutes helped reduce anxiety in stressed-out people.
The mobile app game is inspired by a new cognitive treatment for anxiety called attention-bias modification training (ABMT). The treatment includes training patients to ignore a "threatening stimulus," such as an angry face, and to focus on a "non-threatening stimulus," such as a happy or neutral face. This treatment has previously proved to reduce anxiety and stress among those with high anxiety.
