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Video Games May Enhance Skills Beyond a Superb Double Jump
Video games might offer cognitive benefits like increased hand-eye coordination and visual perception skills.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
Animal Research Success Stories: Brain-Machine Interface
Studying the neural functions underlying movement in monkeys is leading to amazing new technologies that may give paralyzed people the ability to move again.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
The Neuroscience of Gaming, Part I: An Inside Look at Game Design
Game developer Daniel Greenberg discusses how health-focused video games can educate patients and encourage healthy behaviors.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
  • 18 min
The Neuroscience of Gaming, Part IV: A Critical Look at the Role of Games in Health Care
With a number of brain training games being tested in research labs and others already on the market, important ethical questions remain: Do they work? Are there any risks? Neuroscientist Martha Farah addresses these and other questions.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
  • 18 min
The Neuroscience of Gaming, Part II: Upgrading our Diagnostic Toolbox with Video Game Technology
Older adults with cognitive impairment have limited options for treatment. But, as neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley discusses, video games may be an effective way to enhance cognition.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
  • 19 min
The Neuroscience of Gaming, Part III: When Gaming Goes Too Far
Psychologist Mark Griffiths discusses how, for a small minority of people, gaming can progress to an addiction.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
  • 18 min
The Neuroscience of Gaming
Neuroscientists and experts from the gaming industry discuss how video games affect the brain as well their potential applications in classrooms and hospitals.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
Heads in the Cloud
Upload your consciousness into a computer with these 5 easy steps.
This is Your Brain in Space
Want to travel to Mars? Bring empathy, communication skills; expect trouble with seeing, thinking — and keeping food down.
  • The Dana Foundation
Watching TV Alters Children’s Brain Structure and Lowers IQ
From the black-and-white days of I Love Lucy to the blue-ray lasers of today’s Game of Thrones in dazzling 3D, parents have worried that television might harm their child’s brain development. Now the answer is plain to see.
Building Ultron: The Rise of Rogue AI
Ultron walks into a bar, and orders a drink. Bartender says, “We don’t serve robots!”. Ultron replies, “You will.”
How Smartphones Keep You Awake
Your smartphone addiction isn't helping you sleep. In fact, an obscure chemical reaction may be keeping you awake.
  • American Chemical Society
  • 3 min
Unlocking Creativity in the Brain
Peering into the brains of people as they sing, brainstorm, and play is guiding neuroscientists to new insights into the neural underpinnings of creativity.
  • BrainFacts/SfN

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