Brain game 'improves lives of schizophrenia patients'

In recent two weeks, our study is around the topic which is related to abnormal psychology that it is helpful for me because I would like to study Dance Therapy MA Program in the UK next year. Most people have not heard about dance therapy, actually I think that I am also not really understanding this subject before I start my study in the UK . Now, I just know that it is a subject which combines psychology and body movement. However, human is diverse, personal and unique that maybe no one can really understand all the subjects which related to individuals.

According to "Brain game 'improves lives of schizophrenia patients'"(2015), a professional in the university of Cambridge found that a small number of schizophrenia patients who experience cognitive problems are enhancing their memory and learning ability after they played brain-train games which has a wizard theme with various levels of difficulty over one month. Although the results are promising, the researcher said that it is a slow process for treatment which still need to develop a drug treatment in order to have a obvious benefits. Plus, the research team said more research was needed on larger groups of patients to confirm the findings.

When I read this article, I consider that a brain game seems like a similar treatment form with dance therapy. First, both of them are not needed to talk too much with psychotherapist that it is helpful to those patients who cannot communicate well with people such as autism, schizophrenia and dementia. Second, it is more interesting than traditional therapy so that patients might have more motivation on brain games or body movement, it would be beneficial to their healing. Finally, if it can use in conjunction with other therapies such as drugs therapy, it might have more effective results for treatment.

I personally prefer the psychological treatments without drugs because drugs might hurt our health in different levels. Although, sometimes taking drugs is a necessary treatment for certain patients in order to change their physical situation, I still believe that we can more focus on the power of mind such as concentration, creativity and mindfulness to reduce the dependence on drugs so that everyone already have the ability to heal ourselves. For example, there was a Japanese Professor who did an experiment on water. He found that if people said positive words to a cup of water that can become beautiful water crystals. On the other hand, if people said negative words that water would become ugly water crystals. Therefore, if playing a brain game or dancing can enhance our psychological situation, it would be a more steady and healthy ways to enhance patients ability for their life.

However, most people are more dependent on drug therapy and think that playing a brain game and dancing sound a ridiculous way for psychological treatments, but I think that we just need more experiments on it. I hope that people can more realize on our mind which is not a machine, it is an energy that we cannot see it, but it is real exist.
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Reference

Brain game 'improves lives of schizophrenia patients'.(2015, August 3).BBC News. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.com/news/health-33736760