If your a video gamer like I am then your probably tired of people saying that they're good for nothing or a waste of time. A new study by the Helen Willis Neuroscience Institute has shown that playing video games can remedy amblyopia, more commonly known as "lazy eye". The traditional therapy is to let a child read with a patch over their dominant eye, which helps strengthen the weaker eye. The problem with this however is that the exercise is much less effective on adults. In a recent study participants were tasked with playing video games in 2-hour sittings over the course of a month. The participants showed very promising results. In fact the study showed that 40 hours of video games is equal to 120 hours of the traditional therapy, so not only are video games a good form of treatment, they are actually BETTER than the traditional treatment. So from now on when people say that video games are good for nothing, you finally have something to say back!
http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/09/25/video-games-shown-to-be-effective-in-treating-lazy-eye.aspx
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