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Professor says gaming can help relieve stress | TCU 360 - 0 views

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  • Ronnice Moore on 07 Mar 13
     
    I've learned this is true from experience of having friends who play those type of games.
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Texas A&M International University - Laredo, Texas - 0 views

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  • Young adults—male and female—who play violent video games long-term handle stress better than non-playing adults and become less depressed and less hostile following a stressful task, according to a study by Texas A&M International University associate professor, Dr. Christopher J. Ferguson.
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      Ronnice Moore on 17 Feb 13
       
      If this is factual then I will be excited that it is but has it been proven that it is factual?
  • “In this study, 103 young adults were given a frustration task and then randomized to play no game, a non-violent game, a violent game with good versus evil theme, or a violent game in which they played ‘the bad guy.’ The results suggest that violent games reduce depression and hostile feelings in players through mood management,” Dr. Ferguson explained.
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      Ronnice Moore on 17 Feb 13
       
      If the id evidence that backs up the reason why video games help relieve stress, depression, etc then do they have statistics for it?
  • Ferguson said that the results of this study may help provide others with ways to come up with a mood-management activity that provides individuals with ways to tolerate or reduce stress.
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      Ronnice Moore on 17 Feb 13
       
      Personally, when I play video games it distacts me form everything else. When Im mad one of the things that calms me down is playing video games. I've been doing that since I was 11 years old. If it's been working for me this long then I'm sure that my personal expierience with video gaming can back up this article.
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  • However, he suggested that video games could increasingly be used in therapy with young adults and teens.
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      Ronnice Moore on 17 Feb 13
       
      The "news" is that video games are being used in therapy to help young adults and teens. But they're not just violent video games, they're also health related video games. They have certain workout games like dance dance revolution, the micheal jackson video game, just dance, (etc.) all kinds of games that help with therapy which has been proven to be sucessful.
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  • n the Perspectives article, the team describes therapeutic video games, including their own Patient Empowerment Exercise Video Game (PE Game), an activity-promoting game specifically designed to improve resilience, empowerment, and a "fighting spirit" for pediatric oncology patients. The researchers also looked at other games that have been shown to help patients with several chronic diseases.
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      Ronnice Moore on 17 Feb 13
       
      The team has their own therpudic video games for their patients as well as other games that are specifically designed to help patiences with chronical diseases.
  • A new publication by researchers from the University of Utah, appearing in the Sept 19 issue of the journal Science Translational Medicine, indicates video games can be therapeutic and are already beginning to show health-related benefits.
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      Ronnice Moore on 17 Feb 13
       
      Recently Spetember 2012, reasearchers from University of utan idicates that video games can be therapudic and it already begins to show health related benefits.
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