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When we say video games, most of you think about children.

Ninety percent of children do play video games.

I know most of you have had the experience of coming back home and finding your kids playing these kinds of games.

Well, I'm not going to tell you that playing video games days in and days out is actually good for your health.

But I'm going to argue that in reasonable doses, actually the very game I showed you at the beginning, those action-packed shooter games have quite powerful effects and positive effects on many different aspects of our behavior.

There's not one week that goes without some major headlines in the media about whether video games are good or bad for you, right?

What we do in the lab is actually measure directly, in a quantitative fashion, what is the impact of video games on the brain.

People that don't play a lot of action games, that don't actually spend a lot of time in front of screens, have normal, or what we call corrective-to-normal vision.

The issue is what happens with these guys that actually indulge into playing video games like five hours per week, 10 hours per week, 15 hours per week.

So we're actually leveraging that work to develop games for patients with low vision, and to have an impact on retraining their brain to see better.

Clearly, when it comes to action video games, screen time doesn't make your eyesight worse.

Another saying that I'm sure you have all heard around: Video games lead to attention problems and greater distractability.

What we can show is that when you do this kind of task with people that play a lot of action games, they actually resolve the conflict faster.

So clearly playing those action games doesn't lead to attention problems.

So in the same way that we actually see the effects of video games on people's behavior, we can use brain imaging and look at the impact of video games on the brain, and we do find many changes, but the main changes are actually to the brain networks that control attention.

Now, when we do brain imaging, we find that all three of these networks are actually much more efficient in people that play action games.

When we do that, we actually find that people that play a lot of action games are really, really good.

You can't compare the effect of multimedia-tasking and the effect of playing action games.

Even within video games, I'm telling you right now about these action-packed video games.

Different video games have a different effect on your brains.

Now in a sense, when we think about the effect of video games on the brain, it's very similar to the effect of wine on the health.

There are some very poor uses of video games.

So it's the same way, like those action video games have a number of ingredients that are actually really powerful for brain plasticity, learning, attention, vision, etc., and so we need and we're working on understanding what are those active ingredients so that we can really then leverage them to deliver better games, either for education or for rehabilitation of patients.

Now because we are interested in having an impact for education or rehabilitation of patients, we are actually not that interested in how those of you that choose to play video games for many hours on end perform.

It doesn't really feel like playing mindless action video games.

Well, what we do in these training studies is, people come to the lab, they do tasks like this one, we then force them to play 10 hours of action games.

They don't play 10 hours of action games in a row.

After two weeks of training on action video games, they actually perform better, and the improvement is still there five months after having done the training.

Because I told you we want to use these games for education or for rehabilitation.

There are brain scientists like me that are beginning to understand what are the good ingredients in games to promote positive effects, and that's what I'm going to call the broccoli side of the equation.

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