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Video Gamers Show Cognitive Edge Like People 14 Years Younger
A study of over 1,000 people linked more video game time to better memory, reasoning, and verbal skills, equivalent to 13.7 years of youth. Physical activity helped mental health like lower depression but didn’t boost cognition the same way. Larger analyses, including one from nearly 500,000 in the UK Biobank, tied gaming to less dementia risk and brain growth in key areas, with experts noting complementary benefits alongside exercise.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Sep 14
Play video games or be dumb!
Those are your only 2 choices 😂
Brandon Luu, MD
@BrandonLuuMD
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Frequent video gamers performed on cognitive tests like non-gamers that were ~13.7 years younger
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Brandon Luu, MD
@BrandonLuuMD
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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Gaming ftw
Brandon Luu, MD
@BrandonLuuMD
Sep 13
Frequent video gamers performed on cognitive tests like non-gamers that were ~13.7 years younger
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Nicholas Fabiano, MD
@NTFabiano
Sep 14
Playing video games is associated with higher intelligence.
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Anish Moonka
@anishmoonka
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Playing Super Mario 64 for 30 minutes a day for two months physically grew the brains of the people who played it. A 2014 study in Molecular Psychiatry scanned participants before and after two months of daily play and found increases in grey matter in three regions involved in
