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    While video games have been criticized for negative impacts, research now shows they can provide cognitive, physical and psychological benefits. Studies found that games improve motor skills in children, decision-making ability and attention in adults. They also enhance vision and fine motor skills in surgeons. However, violent games have been linked to increased aggression due to changes in brain regions involved in emotional control. Overall, video games appear to offer a range of benefits, though more research is still needed on their effects, both positive and negative.

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    While video games have been criticized for negative impacts, research now shows they can provide cognitive, physical and psychological benefits. Studies found that games improve motor skills in children, decision-making ability and attention in adults. They also enhance vision and fine motor skills in surgeons. However, violent games have been linked to increased aggression due to changes in brain regions involved in emotional control. Overall, video games appear to offer a range of benefits, though more research is still needed on their effects, both positive and negative.

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    While video games have been criticized for negative impacts, research now shows they can provide cognitive, physical and psychological benefits. Studies found that games improve motor skills in children, decision-making ability and attention in adults. They also enhance vision and fine motor skills in surgeons. However, violent games have been linked to increased aggression due to changes in brain regions involved in emotional control. Overall, video games appear to offer a range of benefits, though more research is still needed on their effects, both positive and negative.

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    While video games have been criticized for negative impacts, research now shows they can provide cognitive, physical and psychological benefits. Studies found that games improve motor skills in children, decision-making ability and attention in adults. They also enhance vision and fine motor skills in surgeons. However, violent games have been linked to increased aggression due to changes in brain regions involved in emotional control. Overall, video games appear to offer a range of benefits, though more research is still needed on their effects, both positive and negative.

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    Video games are good for you!

    For years video games have been criticised for making people more antisocial, overweight or

    depressed. But now researchers are finding that games can actually change us for the better and

    improve both our body and mind.

    Games can help to develop physical skills. Pre-school children who played interactive games

    such as the ones available on Wii have been shown to have improved motor skills, for example, they

    can kick, catch and throw a ball better than children who don’t play video games. A study of surgeons

    who do microsurgery in Boston found that those who played video games were 27 per cent faster and

    made 37 per cent fewer errors than those who didn’t. Vision is also improved, particularly telling the

    difference between shades of grey. This is useful for driving at night, piloting a plane or reading X-

    rays.

    Games also benefit a variety of brain functions, including decision-making. People who play

    action-based games make decisions 25 per cent faster than others and are no less accurate,

    according to one study. It was also found that the best gamers can make choices and act on them up

    to six times a second, four times faster than most people. In another study by researchers from the

    University of Rochester in New York, experienced gamers were shown to be able to pay attention to

    more than six things at once without getting confused, compared with the four that most people can

    normally keep in mind. Additionally, video games can also reduce gender differences. Scientists have

    found that women who play games are better able to mentally manipulate 3D objects.

    There is also evidence that gaming can help with psychological problems. At the University of

    Auckland in New Zealand, researchers asked 94 young people diagnosed with depression to play a

    3D fantasy game called SPARX and in many cases, the game reduced symptoms of depression

    more than conventional treatment. Another research team at Oxford University found that playing

    Tetris shortly after exposure to something very upsetting – in the experiment, a film of traumatic

    scenes of injury and death was used – can actually prevent people having disturbing flashbacks.
    The effects are not always so positive, however. Indiana University researchers carried out brain

    scans on young men and found evidence that violent games can alter brain function after as little as a

    week of play, affecting regions in the brain associated with emotional control and causing more

    aggressive behaviour in the player. But Daphne Bavelier, one of the most experienced researchers in

    the field, says that the violent action games that often worry parents most may actually have the

    strongest beneficial effect on the brain. In the future, we may see many treatments for physical and

    neurological problems which incorporate the playing of video games.


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    Selama bertahun-tahun video game telah dikritik karena membuat orang lebih antisosial,

    kelebihan berat badan atau depresi. Tetapi sekarang para peneliti menemukan bahwa permainan

    benar-benar dapat mengubah kita menjadi lebih baik dan meningkatkan tubuh dan pikiran kita.

    Game dapat membantu mengembangkan keterampilan fisik. Anak-anak pra-sekolah yang

    memainkan permainan interaktif seperti yang tersedia di Wii telah terbukti memiliki keterampilan

    motorik yang meningkat, misalnya, mereka dapat menendang, menangkap, dan melempar bola

    dengan lebih baik daripada anak-anak yang tidak bermain video game. Sebuah studi terhadap ahli

    bedah yang melakukan bedah mikro di Boston menemukan bahwa mereka yang bermain video game

    27 persen lebih cepat dan membuat kesalahan 37 persen lebih sedikit daripada mereka yang tidak.

    Visi juga ditingkatkan, terutama yang membedakan antara nuansa abu-abu. Ini berguna untuk

    mengemudi di malam hari, mengemudikan pesawat atau membaca sinar-X.

    Game juga menguntungkan berbagai fungsi otak, termasuk pengambilan keputusan. Orang

    yang memainkan game berbasis aksi membuat keputusan 25 persen lebih cepat daripada yang lain

    dan tidak kalah akurat, menurut sebuah penelitian. Ditemukan juga bahwa para gamer terbaik dapat

    membuat pilihan dan menindakinya hingga enam kali per detik, empat kali lebih cepat daripada

    kebanyakan orang. Dalam penelitian lain oleh para peneliti dari University of Rochester di New York,

    gamer berpengalaman terbukti mampu memperhatikan lebih dari enam hal sekaligus tanpa menjadi

    bingung, dibandingkan dengan empat hal yang biasanya diingat oleh kebanyakan orang. Selain itu,

    video game juga dapat mengurangi perbedaan gender. Para ilmuwan telah menemukan bahwa

    wanita yang bermain game lebih mampu secara mental memanipulasi objek 3D.

    Ada juga bukti bahwa bermain game dapat membantu masalah psikologis. Di Universitas

    Auckland di Selandia Baru, para peneliti meminta 94 orang muda yang didiagnosis depresi untuk

    memainkan game fantasi 3D yang disebut SPARX dan dalam banyak kasus, permainan mengurangi

    gejala depresi lebih daripada perawatan konvensional. Tim peneliti lain di Universitas Oxford
    menemukan bahwa bermain Tetris tidak lama setelah paparan sesuatu yang sangat mengecewakan

    – dalam percobaan, film adegan traumatis cedera dan kematian digunakan – sebenarnya dapat

    mencegah orang-orang yang memiliki kilas balik yang mengganggu.

    Efeknya tidak selalu sangat positif. Peneliti dari Universitas Indiana melakukan pemindaian otak

    pada pria muda dan menemukan bukti bahwa permainan kekerasan dapat mengubah fungsi otak

    setelah bermain selama seminggu, mempengaruhi daerah di otak yang terkait dengan kontrol

    emosional dan menyebabkan perilaku yang lebih agresif pada pemain. Tapi Daphne Bavelier, salah

    satu peneliti paling berpengalaman di bidang itu, mengatakan bahwa permainan aksi kekerasan yang

    sering membuat orang tua khawatir mungkin sebenarnya memiliki efek menguntungkan terkuat pada

    otak. Di masa depan, kita mungkin melihat banyak perawatan untuk masalah fisik dan neurologis

    yang memasukkan permainan video.

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