And it’s true that focusing on gaming to the detriment of all else will have negative effects—there’s a reason that the World Health Organization recognizes video game addiction as a mental ...

A large-scale study released last month linking video games and cognitive health in 9 and 10 year olds has some pediatricians shifting their thinking toward the long-debated effects of video games.

“We focused on how the brain reacts to video game exposure, but these effects do not always translate to real-life changes,” notes Palaus. The research into the effects of video gaming is ...

In video games, all players usually need to do to stay healthy is to drink the occasional healing potion or perhaps grab a ...

DUNLAP: Research has shown again and again and again that time spent playing video games is not predictive of mental health outcomes. NOGUCHI: Because, again, gaming's effects differ from those of ...

But research into the effects of playing video games has produced mixed results, with many studies being unable to prove cause and effect when it comes to mental health outcomes. Studies that aim ...

The same pattern has repeated with respect to studies linking video games to poor mental health, which tend to report smaller effects once they use objective data on game duration (as the OII ...

Scientists have only recently started to probe the complex relationship between video games and heart health — and the effects that different types of games can have. Their findings stress the ...

One study examined the negative effects of violent video games on some people. "Much of the attention to video game research has been negative, focusing on potential harm related to addiction ...

In the past, research on video games and children tended to focus on the potential detrimental effects of the hobby. New research published in JAMA Network Open suggests playing video games could ...

Interestingly, this isn’t to say that all video games have negative effects on the hippocampus. Although action games are associated with a reduction in hippocampal volume, West's work has also shown ...