Video Games Reverse Depression Damage

Two regions of the brain, reward pathways and the hippocampus, physically shrink when we are clinically depressed, and gaming reverses that damage. Studies found that gameplay hyperstimulates brain areas tied to motivation, goals, learning, and memory, directly engaging circuits that depression tends to shut down. Because of this pattern, the researchers describe regular, targeted gaming as the neurological opposite of depression.

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