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EARTHDATE: April 28, 2013

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REAL LIFE NEWS: SEE, I TOLD YOU PLAYING TETRIS WAS GOOD FOR YOU!

by Hazed

Doctors in Canada have discovered that they can treat “lazy eye” in a very innovative way - with Tetris.

The more common way to treat the disorder, where one eye is weaker than the other, is to put a patch over the stronger eye, forcing the weak one to pick up the slack and work harder. This inevitably leads to children being teased, even if they can pretend to be pirates.

Now a team from McGill University has discovered that playing Tetris can train both the eyes to work together. They conducted a small study with 18 adults and found it worked better than the eye patch method.

They now want to conduct a trial to see if this method would work with children.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22245620

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