Current Events > New Study on gaming and hippocampal development

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http://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2017/08/07/playing-action-video-games-can-actually-harm-your-brain/

Once their learning strategy was established, participants then began playing the action and 3D-platform video games. The same amount of screen time on each produced very different effects on the brain. Ninety hours of playing action games led to hippocampal atrophy in response learners, while 90 hours of playing 3D games led to increased grey matter within the hippocampal memory system of all participants.
"Because spatial strategies were shown to be associated with increases in hippocampal grey matter during video game playing, it remains possible that response learners could be encouraged to use spatial strategies to counteract against negative effects on the hippocampal system," the study says, offering an out for action-game manufacturers: change the design.
Now, "players can easily choose to navigate with a response-route-following strategy without relying on the relationships between landmarks, fundamental to the spatial strategy. [...] Action video games designed without in-game GPS, or [without] wayfinding routes overlaid on the games display for the player to follow, could better encourage spatial learning during action video game playing."

not studied: how playing xcom2 made @chill02 into the next nobel prize candidate
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Interesting study, and unfortunate news for CoD players. I just hope this doesn't spend the next decade being waved in congresses and parliaments around the world as proof that videogames are bad for you and need further regulation.
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Is there a study on multiplayer games and cancer development
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Looks like this is just focused on the hippocampus right?
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so does this mean all my hours in dark souls (series) were good for me
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Science confirms what we all knew all along.

Skyrim is literally a dumbed down Morrowind.
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Interesting so Activision stock should drop from that
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s0nicfan posted...

Interesting study, and unfortunate news for CoD players. I just hope this doesn't spend the next decade being waved in congresses and parliaments around the world as proof that videogames are bad for you and need further regulation.

playing COD all the time probably is bad for you

but no more than playing a sport like football probably

that said, what kinda of hippocampal development or atrophy does football promote? that would be an interesting comparison
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Pancake posted...

so does this mean all my hours in dark souls (series) were good for me

probably
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darkphoenix181 posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Interesting study, and unfortunate news for CoD players. I just hope this doesn't spend the next decade being waved in congresses and parliaments around the world as proof that videogames are bad for you and need further regulation.

playing COD all the time probably is bad for you

but no more than playing a sport like football probably

that said, what kinda of hippocampal development or atrophy does football promote? that would be an interesting comparison

It would be difficult, I imagine, to put controls the sample data to account for brain trauma to even make a fair comparison.
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At last, Bubsy 3D was good for something.
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probably

oh my god lol it just hit me, do you think this offsets the hippocampal loss from drinking? have i found balance in this world
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Pancake posted...

oh my god lol it just hit me, do you think this offsets the hippocampal loss from drinking? have i found balance in this world

probably not
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Always important, and I know I've said this before, to keep in mind that this is simply a measure of overall volume, and can be due to changes in many different factors, such as increased synaptic plasticity, increased glial volume, changes in cell shuttling, changes in neurogenesis, changes in rate of cell death, etc...

More or less, the idea that there's an increase in synaptic plasticity in the major hub of spatial processing when practicing a spatial task isn't too surprising or too important.
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science confirms XCOM is good
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COVxy posted...

Always important, and I know I've said this before, to keep in mind that this is simply a measure of overall volume, and can be due to changes in many different factors, such as increased synaptic plasticity, increased glial volume, changes in cell shuttling, changes in neurogenesis, changes in rate of cell death, etc...

More or less, the idea that there's an increase in synaptic plasticity in the major hub of spatial processing when practicing a spatial task isn't too surprising or too important.

@COVxy how do I increase my parasmypathetuc system and lower my sympathetic system?
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BignutzisBack posted...

@COVxy how do I increase my parasmypathetuc system and lower my sympathetic system?

That's not really a well formed question and I would not go from general models and scientific theory to individual advice, anyway.
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No doubt about it

It's ok, most CoD players are already beyond hope.
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No doubt about it

Minimaps and quest markers are cancer. Science confirmed.

Prestigious classics gsmed without handholding like gothic etc are better forcyour brain and make you smarter
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Next research: H-Games improve libido and penis size
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One of my friends is completely hopeless at navigating his way around games, even when there's way points and/or mini maps. I don't think removing these will help him out people like him. Some people are just dumb.
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Insanity216 posted...

Next research: H-Games improve libido and penis size

I mean... they do temporarily
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No doubt about it

No doubt about it

I bet rpgs make you super smart
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I bet JRPGs boost that brain