{"id":853,"date":"2004-03-09T18:53:05","date_gmt":"2004-03-09T18:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=853"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:33:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:33:13","slug":"psychology-worry-beads-block-formation-of-bad-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"psychology: worry beads block formation of bad memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In many cultures, people repetitively finger  strands of beads to help them deal with their worries. Now British  researchers may have figured out why this kind of distraction works. A  report by Emily Holmes of University College London and her colleagues  in the March issue of the <em>Journal of Experimental Psychology: G<\/em><em>eneral<\/em> suggests that performing a &#8220;visuospatial pattern task&#8221; during a trauma  may help curb flashbacks of the disturbing event. The researchers had  volunteers perform various tasks as they watched a graphic film of  real-life car crashes replete with screaming victims and severed body  parts. In one experiment, some volunteers tapped out a repetitive  pattern on a keyboard while watching the film, while others simply  watched. The viewers who tapped suffered fewer intrusive memories of the  film in the following week compared to the other volunteers,  researchers said. Holmes said she believes the same types of memory may  be used to process both the keyboard tapping and the traumatic images of  the film, so performing a pattern task during a trauma may reduce the  retention of that memory, leading to fewer flashbacks. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Discoveries column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 3\/09\/2004.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In many cultures, people repetitively finger strands of beads to help them deal with their worries. Now British researchers may have figured out why this kind of distraction works. A report by Emily Holmes of University College London and her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=853\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}