How Playing Tetris Changes Your Brain

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A teenager in the US beat Tetris, achieving a coveted title in the world of video game

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Known in the gaming world as "Blue Scuti", Willis Gibson made it to the game's "kill screen"

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The feat tell a lot about the capability of the human mind and the extreme limits it can go to

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A study done on the incredibly addictive game says playing it gives you more brain to work with

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Psychologist Richard Haier said in the study that Tetris can affect the plasticity of cortical gray matter

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This effect enhances a person's memory capacity and promotes motor and cognitive development

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A 2017 study by Oxford University researchers showed Tetris can provide relief to people with PTSD

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Tetris has a simple concept: tetromino (or geometric) shapes fall one-by-one from top of the screen

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A player has to rearrange them in horizontal lines to clear blocks and free up additional space

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It was first released by Nintendo in 1989 and it took 34 years for a human to break the game

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