/PeacePong

Interactive Bilateral Stimulation for Everyone!

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Welcome to PeacePong!

PeacePong is a re-imagination of the classic Pong game as a self-cooperative and immersive experience for individuals to support Play Therapy, Bilateral Stimulation, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy.

Based On: https://github.com/ainc/unity-pong

Uses latest Unity LTS and WebGL. Built locally, pushed, then deployed to GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions.


Supporting Articles and Papers

Beyond Kübler-Ross: Recent developments in our understanding of grief and bereavement

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy

A structured therapy that encourages the patient to briefly focus on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements), which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: A Conceptual Framework

Prolonged grief disorder in section II of DSM-5: a commentary

So, we welcome the inclusion of PGD in DSM-5’s Section II. We do so as researchers, considering that this will stimulate research on the prevalence and maintaining mechanisms of, and preventive and curative care for disturbed grief. This is crucial because this research is still limited, compared with research on other common mental health disorders, and insufficiently generalizable, due to the many different ways disordered grief has been defined.

The Role of Alternating Bilateral Stimulation in Establishing Positive Cognition in EMDR Therapy: A Multi-Channel Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study

Self-affirmation activates brain systems associated with self-related processing and reward and is reinforced by future orientation

Bilateral Alternating Auditory Stimulations Facilitate Fear Extinction and Retrieval