Sunday, May 3, 2015

Gaming Can Improve Our Minds


This video has been seen by fewer than two dozen people. It is new. It was recommended to me by an old friend who got all the way to an oral defense of his Ph.D. dissertation in neurophysiology, and then quit. He had been asked to provide new evidence for his dissertation, due to an external event in his department. He went on to become one of the nation's leading trial lawyers. He keeps up with the field. Within five years, this could be a game-changer, literally. Specialists are at the edge of a transformation of their understanding of the brain. With positive feedback through video games, individuals will be able to restore lost brain functions. This technique has been demonstrated to have produced astounding improvements in cognition in people age 70 and older -- restoring some functions to age 25.

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