Video games can be helpful in fighting depression

Video games can be helpful in fighting depression

There was a time when there was a lot of craze about taking video games from children, but after the arrival of the smartphone, the video game was not known where it was lost. But now researchers have found that playing video games can prove to be very helpful in the effective treatment of depression. Video game helps to train the brain. Research findings show that playing specially designed video games has helped people overcome their depression.

Such video games have the ability to eliminate the depression caused by internal (chemical imbalance or genetic factors) or external factors (jobs or other issues or relationships).

Subuhi Khan of the University of California, Davis in Davis said, "The use of carefully motivated messages gives the message that mental health video games can be used as a more practical alternative."

Explaining the internal changes of biological factors to cause depression, researchers gave participants to train video game based app brains, to do something to control their depression.

Researchers said that it supports other researches that show that brain training sports have the potential for cognitive changes.

On the other hand, assuming depression as the situation of external factors, the participants were motivated to give more time to the game, which then helped them to control their position.

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Comments Research found that playing video games has an immediate effect, but the chances of long-term profit are less. This research has been published in 'Computers in Human Behavior'.