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🎮 Can video games benefit your brain?

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A 2025 study in PLOS ONE involving 1,000+ people found that more gaming was associated with better cognitive test performance but not better mental health.

Exercise showed a different pattern: it was associated with better mental health.

🧠 Gaming and exercise may offer different benefits.

⚠️ Cross-sectional study ≠ causation

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0334924

#BrainHealth #Gaming #Neuroscience

journals.plos.orgCharacterizing the cognitive and mental health benefits of exercise and video game playingTwo of the most actively studied modifiable lifestyle factors, exercise and video gaming, are regularly touted as easy and effective ways to enhance brain function and/or protect it from age-related decline. However, some critical lingering questions and methodological inconsistencies leave it uncle...

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Chayakrit Krittanawong, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI. 🎮 Can video games benefit your brain?. Vitahash. 2026. STAMP-2026-1031-OWZLL4E4

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