Video Games Used to Relax Kids in Hospital
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Letting children play video games on a Game Boy in the operating room before undergoing surgery can help relax them better than tranquilizers or holding Mommy&#39;s hand, researchers say.
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Playing on the Nintendo Wii can improve a surgeon's performance in the operating theatre, a study shows.
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The new website WhatTheyPlay.com gives parents the information they need to decide which video games are right for their families.  Objective reviews spell out both game features and content, giving the details about storyline, sexuality, violence, gore a
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It's a basic lesson children learn even before their ABCs &#151; say you're sorry when you hurt someone. But it's now being taught in the grown-up world of medicine as a surprisingly powerful way to soothe patients.
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A workout is certainly one way to burn off some excess anxiety after a long, stressful day at work. For wound-up video gamers, though, it's a lot more fun to fire up the console and plow through endless waves of zombies.
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It may seem an obvious diagnosis for parents, but video games might not actually be addictive, the American Medical Association says.
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Ways of ensuring parents know about games suitable for children are to be considered by the games industry.
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Video games improve street children's learning skills and social inclusion, Argentine researchers find out.
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Nintendo's casual-gaming powerhouse apparently works a new kind of magic, virtually honing doctors' real-world surgical skills. Next up: surgery training software for the little console that could.
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The telltale signs are ominous: teens holing up in their rooms, ignoring friends, family, even food and a shower, while grades plummet and belligerence soars. The culprit isn't alcohol or drugs. It's video games, which for certain kids can be as powerfully addictive as heroin, some doctors contend.
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Children gowned and waiting for surgery, many of them scared and crying, can be calmed better with hand-held video games than with sedatives, Newark researchers have found.
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TUESDAY, Nov. 28 (HealthDay News) -- A study of adolescents finds that violent video games stir up the brain's emotional-response center while reducing activity in regions linked to self-control.
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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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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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TORONTO, Dec 7 (Reuters Life!) - A new generation of  technologically savvy parents are turning gaming into a family  event, according to a new survey, but critics pushing for  greater monitoring of video game content remain concerned.
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'Casual games' bring families together Once thought of as an alienating and isolating influence, computer games are now becoming a favoured means of bonding among families.â¦
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But playing in 'social situations' Teenagers are using violent video games to vent their stress, a new study has found.â¦