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Mental Health - How Video Games Affect Your Brain and Behavior

A growing body of evidence shows that video gaming can affect the brain and, furthermore, cause changes in many regions of the brain.

Video Gaming: Scientists have recently collected and summarized results from 116 scientific studies to determine how video games can influence our brains and behaviors. The findings of their review were published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

At a glance, more than 150 million people in the United States play video games regularly, or for at least 3 hours per week. The average American gamer is a 35-year-old adult, with 72 percent of gamers aged 18 or older. For video game use by children, most parents – 71 percent – indicate that video games have a positive influence on their child’s life.

Increased Visuospatial Skills

Evidence also demonstrates that playing video games increases the size and competence of parts of the brain responsible for visuospatial skills – a person’s ability to identify visual and spatial relationships among objects. In long-term gamers and individuals who had volunteered to follow a video game training plan, the right hippocampus was enlarged.

Researchers have discovered that video gaming can be addictive – a phenomenon known as “Internet gaming disorder.”

In gaming addicts, there are functional and structural alterations in the neural reward system – a group of structures associated with feeling pleasure, learning, and motivation. Exposing video game addicts to game-related cues that cause cravings, and monitoring their brain responses, highlighted these changes – changes that are also seen in other addictive disorders.

Source: Read the full story…. medicalnewstoday.com

 

 

Antonius van Rooij: Does Video Gaming Ruin People’s Lives?

(TEDx) League of Legends, World of Warcraft and Counter Strike are only three video games among hundreds but they all have one thing in common: once you get hooked it is hard to stop playing. But when does gaming behaviour become a serious problem? Does gaming “eat” the soul of our children? In his talk Antonius van Rooij will explain the science behind video game addiction.

About Antonius van Rooij

Antonius van Rooij successfully defended his PhD on the same topic in 2011 and is currently employed as a senior researcher at the iMinds research group Media & ICT (MICT) at Ghent University. He is active in several Dutch and Flemish public health initiatives that aim to translate scientific information about the risks and benefits of gaming to the general public through websites, online self-tests, and streamed video.

 

 

Across the web:

http://www.businessinsider.com/video-games-and-violence-2018-3How playing video games affects your body and brain

Video games are one of the most popular and commonly enjoyed forms of entertainment of our time, yet there’s a lot of controversy around them. The World Health Organization recently decided to add “gaming disorder” to its official list of mental health …

 

Action video games could have a beneficial effect on the brain: study

New international research has found that playing action video games could have a beneficial effect on the brain by expanding its cognitive … the last 15 years to look at how video games can affect cognition. For the new study, the team focused in …

 

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-video-game-addiction-explainer-20180619-story.htmlWorld Health Organization says video game addiction is a disease. Why American psychiatrists don’t

Family or social lives have been upended by video games probably meet the criteria for a new form of addiction called “gaming disorder.” If a person has escalated or persisted in his or her gaming behavior despite clearly negative consequences …

 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-video-game-addiction-20180619-story.htmlAre your kids addicted to video games? Here’s what to look for

How is gaming addiction similar to other addictions … What can parents do if they feel their child is spending too much time playing video games? Childhood is not to be spent in a darkened room playing with a video game or on multiple devices.

 

Video Game Addiction Now Recognized As Medical Disorder

NEW YORK (CBSMiami/CNN) – Video game addiction is now officially recognized as a medical disorder. On Monday, the World Health Organization added “gaming disorder” to a new draft of the organization’s international classification of diseases.

 

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