Violent video game effects linger in brain: study
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Teens who play violent video games show  increased activity in areas of the brain linked to emotional  arousal and decreased responses in regions that govern  self-control, a study released on Tuesday found.
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Violence is anathema to modern German sensibilities. That pacifism applied to video games could mean legal repercussions. By Bruce Gain.
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Washington - Stress activates an enzyme in the brain which interferes with short-term memory and other functions of the prefrontal cortex, located just above the eyes, in rats and monkeys, according to a US study published on Friday.
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Older Americans play with video games that promise to keep their minds sharp. Some do crossword puzzles, try to master foreign languages or learn to play musical instruments -- all in the hope of staving off Alzheimer's. Now, a growing body of research is offering tantalizing evidence that a brisk...
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There are biological brain differences that mark out psychopaths from other people, scientists say.
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Video game addicts,  rejoice: U.S. researchers have found that playing is actually  good for your eyes, and despite all those dire warnings from  your parents, it won't make you blind.
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New research may advance a longstanding debate about whether the brain can block access to painful memories, like betrayals and childhood sexual abuse, and suddenly release them later on.
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Playing high-action video games for a few hours each day can improve your vision, according to U.S. researchers.
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Video gamers relish violence on the screen but now players are becoming victims themselves -- of the latest gaming technology in which a wireless, wand-like device is used to direct on-screen action.
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Why does it often seem that men enjoy playing video games more than women? Perhaps because they do.
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A video game purports to probe the minds of the Columbine killers. What enlightenment can a shooter game provide? Commentary by Tony Long.
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Cocaine users&#39; brains have a different structure which could affect their ability to judge the consequences of their actions, a study suggests.
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A new study examining the correlation between study time and GPA scores found that video games (or any other extra-curricular activity) can slightly reduce grade performance.
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Six days a week, teens crowd the Blue Screen Gaming cybercafe to hunt each other down with assault rifles inside virtual computer worlds. In these video game halls, nobody gets hurt. But real-life violence has flared around some of these businesses, prompting municipal crackdowns.
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Violent video games are once again under the microscope following a shooting at a German school, in which a teenager with an apparent fondness for war simulations and violent video games wounded as many as 37 people before taking his own life.
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Researchers in England and Switzerland use video cameras and virtual-reality goggles to make subjects observe "themself" from elsewhere in the room. They learn: "The brain can trick itself."
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NEW YORK  - In a new study, researchers found measurable decrements in the brain function of intercollegiate athletes who sustained anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries that were not associated with a collision with another athlete or object.