The Surprising Connection Between Playing Video Games And A Thicker Brain

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The Surprising Connection Between Playing Video Games And A Thicker Brain

Researchers studied the brains of 152 adolescents, both male and female, who averaged about 12.6 hours of video gaming a week. As one might guess, the males, on average, played more than the females, but all of the participants spent a significant amount of time with a gaming console. The research team wanted to know if more time spent gaming correlated with differences in participants’ brains.

What they found is that the brains of adolescents that spent the most time playing video games showed greater cortical thickness in two brain areas: the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and the left frontal eye field (FEF).

Selling games may become much easier with such findings

 

[cliffordcooley]

So while people with thicker brains have a tendency to be the ones who play games, scientist are trying to prove that games are the cause of thicker brains. I think I will be among the first to tell these scientist, "You will never find an answer while studying people who already play!".