Psychology & Psychiatry

Video games linked to sexism in teenagers: study

The more time a teenage spends on video gaming, the likelier he or she is to display sexist attitudes and gender stereotypes, a study of thousands of French gaming aficionados has found.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Video games could improve kids' brains: study

Parents often worry about the harmful impacts of video games on their children, from mental health and social problems to missing out on exercise.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Playing video games helps adults with lazy eye

(Medical Xpress) -- Here are some words that few would have thought to put together: video game therapy. Yet, a pilot study by vision researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has found that playing video games ...

Neuroscience

Memories are 'geotagged' with spatial information, study finds

Using a video game in which people navigate through a virtual town delivering objects to specific locations, a team of neuroscientists from the University of Pennsylvania and Freiburg University has discovered how brain cells ...

Cardiology

Stroke patients benefit from at-home therapy video game trial

Constraint-induced movement therapy— a therapeutic approach developed by University of Alabama at Birmingham researcher Ed Taub, Ph.D., to rehabilitate movement after stroke— is being translated to a video game version ...

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