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Study confirms that video games increase brain efficiency, despite addiction warnings

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Earlier, Scientific American revealed a recent study conducted by researchers at the Open University of Catalonia in Spain and Massachusetts Hospital in the United States, according to which video games can change the areas of the brain responsible for attention and visual skills and make them more efficient.

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Research team official  Mark Palos  confirmed that over the past years, various media outlets have focused on a lot of various reports that have been raised about the extent of video games' damage and their impact on physical and psychological health, but many of them lacked data and facts to support those claims.

In order to ascertain the effect of video games on the structure and activity of the brain, the researchers followed the results of 116 scientific studies conducted in this regard, including 22 studies that monitored structural changes in the brain, and 94 studies that monitored changes in brain function or behavior, where the aim of this study comes in the context of A major research project studying how to improve human cognition or other cognitive tasks, through the use of video games or brain stimulation techniques.

The results came out that the brain regions involved in attention and reward processes are more efficient in those who play video games, and have proven that video games can also increase the size and efficiency of brain regions related to spatial memory and lead to an expansion of the right hippocampus.

AMYGDALA The amygdala, or amygdala, is directly responsible for the sensory perception and emotional response of the brain

At the same time, the same study concluded that it is highly possible for video games to cause addiction to the so-called “internet gaming disorder,” which causes functional and structural changes in the neural reward system of its addicts, which are very similar to the neurological changes that appear in addiction disorders. Others such as alcoholism, smoking, etc.

The benefits of video games when they are played as much as possible

•  Coordination of skills at the same moment
•  Gain problem-solving skills
•  Enhance memory skills
•  Improve attention and ability to focus
• Rich learning resource
• Acquire and develop multitasking skills
•  Improving social skills and mood adjustment

The researcher concluded the study, which was based mainly on how the brain interacts with playing video games and stressed that this field of research is still in its infancy because we are continuing to research the effect of video games on different brain regions.

In any case, addressing such topics in many cases limits many of the lengthy discussions that are raised without desired benefit, and without solid scientific evidence about the harms of video games and the deliberate marginalization of their beneficial aspects, and to address these scientific topics based on studies and not fiction, It strengthens the player's argument against some societies that still find it difficult to accept this hobby.

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