Posts Tagged ‘video games’

Video Game Jam

Video Gaming, Not Exercise, Makes Your Brain Younger?

October 21, 2024 — “We conclude that exercise and video gaming have differential effects on the brain, which may help individuals tailor their lifestyle choices to promote mental and cognitive health, respectively, across the lifespan.” This conclusion comes from a preprint published on PsyArXiv. Science, health, and lifestyle reporters got even more bold with their conclusions. For instance, the […]

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$10 Million to Escape Fat City

November 15, 2014 — The story of NIH spending $10 million on a video game to help kids escape fat city has something to annoy everyone. Let’s start with offensive stereotypes that promote weight bias. The game’s hero is an athletic youth who falls into a fat city — the kingdom of Diab with an evil, fat ruler who […]