Ever since their invention, there are debates and stigma over the impact video games wear brains.
On one side, you have the fact that people are sitting stationary for a long time, which is detrimental to their overall health. (But any one of us with an office job can relate to that.) On the other side, there’s the idea that video games are training the brain.
So… are video games bad for you?
Peter Rubin, a Senior Producer at WIRED, looked into this for us all.
He visited researchers, doctors, and tested his skills against a professional gamer to examine what the particular effects video games wear our health.
Honestly, I wasn’t expecting the results he came up with… and I definitely wasn’t anticipating where video games may take us in the future.
Really? Video games as medicine?
Yep! You heard it right. There are researchers working towards developing games that can enhance our everyday brain use and can be prescribed to be used to “support treatment of brain disorders such as ADHD, autism, depression, Alzheimer’s disease, and more” 2. They’re aiming to build a new type of treatment that doesn’t involve chemicals (most prescription medications have uncomfortable side effects) and makes it an experience that’s unique to each patient.
The Verge shows US however this new “digital medicine” works with a visit to Neuroscape, a middle operating to integrate technology and neuroscience!
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