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Oct 13, 2022 · News. Video games offer the potential of ‘experiential medicine’. October 13, 2022. Laura Kurtzman, UC San Francisco. Credit: Susan Merrell/UC San Francisco. After a decade of work, scientists at UC San Francisco’s Neuroscape Center have developed a suite of video game interventions that improve key aspects of cognition in aging adults.
Dec 8, 2015 · Results suggest novel approaches to maintaining cognition as we age. Irvine, Calif., Dec. 8, 2015 — Don’t put that controller down just yet. Playing three-dimensional video games – besides being lots of fun – can boost the formation of memories, according to University of California, Irvine neurobiologists.
Mar 6, 2014 · This week the University of California, San Francisco debuts a new laboratory devoted to asking whether video games can do more than turn us into couch potatoes. There are no test tubes at the Neuroscape Lab. Instead, it looks like some billionaire’s personal video game parlor: dimly lit in a palate of dark grays, punctuated
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Jun 15, 2020 · June 15, 2020. FDA Approves Video Game Based on UCSF Brain Research as ADHD Therapy for Kids. By Laura Kurtzman. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first video game therapeutic as a treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children, based on research by UC San Francisco’s Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD.
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Mar 21, 2024 · Why video games help. Since the fall of the first block of Tetris, people have worried about the addictive nature of video games. But there’s a reason why they are so good at capturing our attention. Research from UC Riverside suggests that they can have major benefits for our mental health.
Jun 2, 2022 · The soon to be released, interactive, fast-paced game Squish was developed by UC Santa Cruz engineering and arts, games, & playable media students. UC Santa Cruz student-developed game releasing to Nintendo Switch | University of California
