Sometimes this is actual dust when I’ve been lax on the cleaning, so not all bad. The fact that I’ve spent so much time playing it means I am now cursed to spot a tiny pixel of dust wherever I go. It’s also an achievement to collect all of them, so that was me addicted from the outset. In Thimbleweed Park you can pick up tiny specks of dust while exploring the kooky town. I think that’s quite key – it easily becomes a subconscious pattern-seeking compulsion because it sits in the back of your mind, even when you stop playing. It means your brain is trained to look for this pattern everywhere – and it doesn’t take long before that extends into real life.Ĭats, shower heads, fried eggs, zebra crossings… I’m surrounded!įinding these pathways is kind of a side mission in the game, and as such the player is only partly engaged with the idea as they go about solving the main puzzles. Seriously, I really did draw a mental beam of light down my cat’s arm.Īnyone who’s extensively played The Witness will know that a large part of the game is spent trying to draw light beams from anything that remotely resembles a circle with a path under it. How can it not? It’s not like all those years of rotating shapes was a complete waste of time. That sounds facetious, but I really do believe it helps. On the plus side, it’s very useful for packing for holiday, cramming useless items into tiny cupboards and stacking the dishwasher. Sometimes I involuntarily fit blocks together in my mind as I’m drifting off to sleep, or just waking up. It’s ingrained from years of playing Tetris, though it’s even worse when I’ve just been playing it. I regularly envisage things slotting together when I’m out and about – brick walls, high-rise buildings, people in my yoga class. Tetris Syndrome is also known as Tetris Effect, but that now means something else in our gaming world. It’s not limited to gaming, though that’s where the idea comes from. Health Literacy Online: A Guide for Simplifying the User Experience.Tetris Syndrome is the result of repeating an action to the point that you start to act out or hallucinate the motions in real life – like piecing Tetris blocks together. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Improving newborn screening laboratory test ordering and result reporting using health information exchange. ![]() Reference: Data from the Newborn Screening Coding and Terminology Guide is available here.Reference: MedGen Data Downloads and FTPĭata from the National Library of Medicine's Newborn Screening Coding and Terminology Guide is used to note if a disease is included on Federal or State recommendations for newborn screening testing.Kohler S, Gargano M, Matentzoglu N, et al., The Human Phenotype Ontology in 2021, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 49, Issue D1, 8 January 2021, Pages D1207–D1217.ĭata from the National Center for Biotechnology Information's MedGen is used to provide genetic testing information available for a disease. Orphanet is an online database of rare diseases and orphan drugs. Reference: Access aggregated data from Orphanet at Orphadata. ![]()
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