How gaming can improve brain health in 2025
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Key Points:
- Recent research highlighted by The Washington Post suggests video games can have positive effects on brain health, challenging earlier beliefs that they are inherently harmful.
- Studies show that complex, demanding games like StarCraft II improve brain efficiency, enhancing attention, memory, multitasking, visual attention, and learning speed.
- Cognitive benefits are linked to moderate, structured gameplay—typically 30 minutes to an hour—with an emphasis on playing new games to maintain cognitive challenge.
- Excessive or prolonged gaming sessions do not yield the same benefits and may interfere with daily life, underscoring the importance of balanced and varied gaming habits.
- While promising, the research notes that improvements are correlations rather than guarantees, and the transferability of gaming-related cognitive skills to everyday tasks remains under
