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Gaming both video and computer has become more than a fad, it is a part of life. First generationvideo game players have now become adult and carry their passion to adulthood. Parents andteachers worry about games having negative effects on children and a great deal has been writtenabout games leading to violent behavior and addiction. However, all is not negative aboutgaming, studies by leading researchers have shown that video and computer games have many

benefits:

1. Games help children who are ill or have injuries. Absorption in a game distracts the mind from pain and discomfort. Many hospitals are encouraging children and others undergoing painfultreatments to play games.

2. Griffiths a professor at Nottingham University wrote in a medical journal that playing gamescould help children with attention deficit disorders. Research indicates that the children couldgain social skills.

3. Many medical departments are using computer games as a form of physiotherapy. Games help

people who are recovery from physical injuries gain motor skills and coordination too.

4. Video games and computer games are known to improve hand-eye co-ordination and help players gain many skills.

5. Games induce decision making and tech players to think on their feet.

6. Games create team players and hone social skills too.

7. Games are known to enhance creativity and inculcate a taste for graphics, design andtechnology.

8. Many games improve language and math skills as players have to move at a great speed alongwith the heroes of the game.

9. Video and computer games help children gain self confidence and many games are based onhistory, city building, and governance and so on. Such games indirectly teach children aboutaspects of life on earth.

10. Games teach players problem solving, motivation, and cognitive skills. Most games inspire players to strive and reach more difficult levels presenting challenges at each stage.

Gaming video or computers has positive as well as negative effects. Anything in moderation isnot a problem. Parents and children need to be able to decide how much gaming is permissibleand what kind of gaming. Parents must teach their children what is good and what is bad.Gaming is like any other activity in life, too much hamburger or pizza can be harmful too.

The world of gaming is constantly changing. The internet is replete with articles and tips written by experts on gaming, benefits, and disadvantages, it is important to be informed parents andgame players. Read up on games and learn how to choose games that are beneficial. Know what



Another study, by Sony Online Entertainment and Yahoo! who had a huge parent survey in June2008 and found out that 70% of the parents surveyed have seen their children¶s problem-solvingskills improve since they started playing video games.

Of course gamers aren¶t automatically guaranteed to have better cognitive health than their

grandparents because cognitive fitness mostly depend on four major pillars: nutrition, physicalexercise, stress management and mental exercise. Although gaming is a good mental exercise, but just sitting in front of your computer doesn¶t serve for better nutrition and physical health.

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Better than TV

The biggest difference between time spent playing video games versus times spent watchingtelevision is that watching television is a completely passive experience. The majority of TVviewers just tune in and start swallowing whatever is presented.

Gamers, on the other hand, are active while playing games and have to solve many problems, useanalytical thinking skills and react to fast changing situations. So over time, the difference

between spending leisure time in the active experience of video gaming over the passiveexperience of television watching could be significant.

³Video gamers present as brighter, livelier and more interesting people than the average ³couch potato.´´- says Russel Dawson, who is a teacher and a parent also.

Better Mood and Post-traumatic Gaming



Studies have shown, that games help alleviate common stress that we feel every day. PopCap-endorsed study by East Carolina University¶s Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies in2008 found that casual games can improve players¶ moods.

Scientists utilized positron emission tomography in order to show that levels of the

neurotransmitter dopamine increased while playing video games (dopamine is believed tomediate several behaviors, one of which is the experience of pleasure).

Moreover, there was a study at Oxford University which found out that Tetris can help subjectsdeal with post-traumatic stress. ³Tetris may work by competing for the brain¶s resources for sensory information,´ Dr. Emily Holmes recently told the BBC. ³We suggest it specificallyinterferes with the way sensory memories are laid down in the period after trauma and thusreduces the number of flashbacks that are experienced afterwards.´

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Improves Hand-Eye Coordination

There was one interesting but small study by doctors at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York noticed a link between gaming and improved performance in laparoscopic surgery. A study of 303 laparoscopic surgeons (82 percent men; 18 percent women) showed that surgeons who

played video games requiring spatial skills and hand dexterity and then performed a drill testingthese skills were significantly faster at their first attempt and across all 10 trials than the surgeonswho did not the play video games first. It¶s hard to believe, but not playing games could evenlead to someone¶s death!



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A Remedy for Intense Pain

Medical News Today in one of their 2007 year reports said Nationwide Children¶s Hospital BurnCenter had begun using video games to help kids suffering from intense pain. How does it help?Well, the best natural remedy from pain is probably distraction, and what other thing could be sofun and involving as video games?

Dr. Catherine Butz told the publication, ³Research shows a very strong connection betweenanxiety and pain. Distraction does a great job in decreasing any kind of anxiety that might beassociated with the anticipated procedures, so by distracting patients and keeping anxiety at aminimum, procedures tend to go much more smoothly and be much less painful for the child.´There are also media reports about hospitals using video games to help patients undergoing



chemotherapy.

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Sharper Image

According to a 2006 study at the University of Rochester , ³«Avid action video game playerswere found to localize a peripheral target in a field of distracting objects more accurately thannon-action video game players, as well as to process a visual stream of briefly presented objects

more efficiently and to track more objects at once than [non-action video game players].´



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Distraction from Snacking or Overeating

RealGames after questioning 2,700 respondents found that playing video games was a positive

distraction from snacking or overeating for 59 percent of respondents, while 42 percent of smokers among the group said casual gaming helped them light up less frequently.

A New Way of Teaching

Games could be the best type of learning material because they keep you at the edge of your abilities. At first everything begins at a very slow pace and it starts getting faster and harder thehigher level you advance. So the better you are at some particular game the more demanding it becomes. Remember Tetris? In the 1st level it¶s a peace of cake, and it trains you for theupcoming fast speeds, whereas common lecture could be too hard, so eventually it gets

frustrating and too hard to learn, or just too easy and soon gets boring too.

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³The learning processes behind play, I think, are undervalued,´ says psychologist Dr.

KouroshDini . ³When a person is engaged in play, they seem to learn better. « There¶s thisfeeling of mastery that can happen that sometimes kids don¶t get to achieve otherwise.´

In 2007, the MacArthur Foundation said it would be contributing $1.1 million in funding towardsa new middle and high school in New York whose curriculum would draw inspiration fromvideo games. It doesn¶t mean of course that students will be killing each other in Counter-strikegame, however.



Imagination Boost

Do you want to get into the shoes of an army general and lead your warriors intro the battlefields? Maybe fly a Jet plane or become a zombie slayer and save the world? The possibilities are infinite. Doing these mind blowing things puts you into situations that you¶ve

never been to and forces your mind to think in a completely new and different way.

Sims creator Will Wright once wrote, ³«The gamers¶ mindset²the fact that they are learning ina totally new way²means they¶ll treat the world as a place for creation, not consumption. This isthe true impact video games will have on our culture.´

------However my girlfriend says its stupid and that I should stop playing it. Well, I wont give up so

easily! I did a little research and found 10 arguments for her. So, if you find yourself in a similar situation

like mines, where you have to proof that gaming is GOOD here is a list of 10 benefits of playing video

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10 benefits play video games

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