Playing With Your Brain: The Negative Impact of Action Video Games
Originally shared by Neuroscience News
Playing With Your Brain: The Negative Impact of Action Video Games
"Thanks to navigation tests and brain scans, our studies show that response learners, those players using their brain's autopilot and reward system to navigate, experienced grey matter loss in their hippocampus after playing action video games for 90 hours. The hippocampus is the key structure involved in spatial memory (orientation) and episodic memory (autobiographical events) within the brain. On the contrary, spatial learners, those using their hippocampus to navigate, increased their grey matter after playing for the same amount of time," says first author Dr. Greg West, researcher and associate professor at the Université de Montréal.
The research is in Molecular Psychiatry. (full open access)
http://neurosciencenews.com/negative-action-games-7272/
Playing With Your Brain: The Negative Impact of Action Video Games
"Thanks to navigation tests and brain scans, our studies show that response learners, those players using their brain's autopilot and reward system to navigate, experienced grey matter loss in their hippocampus after playing action video games for 90 hours. The hippocampus is the key structure involved in spatial memory (orientation) and episodic memory (autobiographical events) within the brain. On the contrary, spatial learners, those using their hippocampus to navigate, increased their grey matter after playing for the same amount of time," says first author Dr. Greg West, researcher and associate professor at the Université de Montréal.
The research is in Molecular Psychiatry. (full open access)
http://neurosciencenews.com/negative-action-games-7272/
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