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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thinking is good for the brain!<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/12/2017 3:23 PM, William Flynn
Wallace wrote:<br>
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href="http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/08/09/542215646/video-games-may-affect-the-brain-differently-depending-on-what-you-play?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits">http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/08/09/542215646/video-games-may-affect-the-brain-differently-depending-on-what-you-play?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits</a></font><br>
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face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Video games
help/hurt the brain. Take your pick, but I say that
shrinking the hypothalamus is not a good result no
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">The difference between a
"first-person shooting game" and "3D-platform games" used in
this study seem very narrow to me. I would be interested to
know the specific games that were used. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Maybe another way to view this
conclusion is simply this: If you use your hippocampus, it will
grow grey matter; if you do not use your hippocampus, it will
lose grey matter. This should apply not only to the playing of
video games, but to practically any other types of human action.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">This is the summary of that study from
nature.com: "The hippocampus is critical to healthy cognition, yet
results in the current study show that action video game players
have reduced grey matter within the hippocampus. A subsequent
randomised longitudinal training experiment demonstrated that
first-person shooting games reduce grey matter within the
hippocampus in participants using non-spatial memory strategies.
Conversely, participants who use hippocampus-dependent spatial
strategies showed increased grey matter in the hippocampus after
training. A control group that trained on 3D-platform games
displayed growth in either the hippocampus or the functionally
connected entorhinal cortex. A third study replicated the effect
of action video game training on grey matter in the hippocampus.
These results show that video games can be beneficial or
detrimental to the hippocampal system depending on the navigation
strategy that a person employs and the genre of the game." --
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp2017155a.html">http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp2017155a.html</a><br>
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