Post by Definitely Not Axe Hack on Nov 11, 2007 17:25:55 GMT -5
Here's the next 3 for you...
2) Tame Irritable Bowels!
Feeling bloated and gassy? Time to reach for that videogame controller. At the Royal Free Hospital in London, teenagers suffering from irritable-bowel syndrome - a common intestinal disorder that leads to unpleasant consequences like explosive diarrhea or painful constipation - were treated using a customized videogame. Patients were wired with a series of biofeedback sensors that picked up on how relaxed they were feeling at a given moment. The sensors were connected to a game in which the object was to progress through a so-called "virtual bowel" cluttered with red bubbles of pain. The more the patient relaxed, the more the biofeedback system neutralized the gas bubbles in the game - letting the player emerge from the bowel into a happy, bucolic scene. So much for Rolaids.
3) Stop Smoking!
So much for aliens and terrorists - if you want a real videogame challenge, try laser-scalping lung tar! That's the object of Rex Ronan, a game that's been proven to sway young kids away from sparking up butts. Developed by a company called Click Health, the game casts players as Dr. Rex Ronan, a surgeon who gets miniaturized and injected inside the body of a chronic smoker. Once inside the lungs, Dr. Ronan has to neutralize plaque, debris, and precancerous cells before those ugly tumors take over. Sound scary? According to Dr. Deborah Lieberman of the University of Detroit, Santa Barbara, teens who played the game for a week showed a dramatic decrease in their desire to smoke.
4) Develop Hand-Eye Coordination!
Psychologists in England found that people who played 18 hours of videogames per week developed hand-eye coordination comparable to that of traditional athletes. Research was conducted by studying players who were participating in a Grand Turismo tornament in England. In addition to improved coordination, Dr. Jo Bryce, a psychologist at the University of Central Lancashire, found that gamers entered a "flow state" similar to that of accompliced track and field jocks. "The psychology of participating in gaming," she said, "is similar to the psychology of participating in atletics: high levels of concentration and actions that are automatic." As a result, players experience benefits such as "learning how to be creative and deal with frustration."
So that's 4...6 to go...
2) Tame Irritable Bowels!
Feeling bloated and gassy? Time to reach for that videogame controller. At the Royal Free Hospital in London, teenagers suffering from irritable-bowel syndrome - a common intestinal disorder that leads to unpleasant consequences like explosive diarrhea or painful constipation - were treated using a customized videogame. Patients were wired with a series of biofeedback sensors that picked up on how relaxed they were feeling at a given moment. The sensors were connected to a game in which the object was to progress through a so-called "virtual bowel" cluttered with red bubbles of pain. The more the patient relaxed, the more the biofeedback system neutralized the gas bubbles in the game - letting the player emerge from the bowel into a happy, bucolic scene. So much for Rolaids.
3) Stop Smoking!
So much for aliens and terrorists - if you want a real videogame challenge, try laser-scalping lung tar! That's the object of Rex Ronan, a game that's been proven to sway young kids away from sparking up butts. Developed by a company called Click Health, the game casts players as Dr. Rex Ronan, a surgeon who gets miniaturized and injected inside the body of a chronic smoker. Once inside the lungs, Dr. Ronan has to neutralize plaque, debris, and precancerous cells before those ugly tumors take over. Sound scary? According to Dr. Deborah Lieberman of the University of Detroit, Santa Barbara, teens who played the game for a week showed a dramatic decrease in their desire to smoke.
4) Develop Hand-Eye Coordination!
Psychologists in England found that people who played 18 hours of videogames per week developed hand-eye coordination comparable to that of traditional athletes. Research was conducted by studying players who were participating in a Grand Turismo tornament in England. In addition to improved coordination, Dr. Jo Bryce, a psychologist at the University of Central Lancashire, found that gamers entered a "flow state" similar to that of accompliced track and field jocks. "The psychology of participating in gaming," she said, "is similar to the psychology of participating in atletics: high levels of concentration and actions that are automatic." As a result, players experience benefits such as "learning how to be creative and deal with frustration."
So that's 4...6 to go...
