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01/09/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Chronic exposure to violence kills empathy, ability to process emotions: Study finds violent video games change young people’s brains

Violent video games are often thought of as encouraging anti-social, aggressive behavior; new research has suggested that they can do so much more. The investigators behind a recent study have found that prolonged exposure to violent video games may actually impact people on a neural level, resulting in reduced empathy and increased emotional callousness. In […]

06/28/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Video games really do alter the brain function of our youth

A study that was recently published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience entitled Neural Basis of Video Gaming: A Systematic Review showed that playing video games can alter behavioral patterns, especially those that deal with attention and spatial orientation. The team involved in the study analyzed 122 scientific research pieces: 22 of which looked at developments in […]

03/18/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Do violent video games affect empathy? This new study may surprise you

While much has been made of the link between violent video games and real-life aggression, a new study published in Frontiers in Psychology casts some doubts on this connection over the long term. When German researchers made use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to look at the brains of people who play video games […]

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