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Health and Gaming Research Aided by $2M in Grants
by Aaron Linde, May 27, 2008 8:02pm PDTMore than $2 million in grants will be awarded to 12 research teams across the United States to research the health benefits of gaming.
Awarded from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's health games research program, the grants are aimed at strengthening the evidence base that supports the use of gaming as a means of improving players' health behaviors and outcomes.
The studies will explore topics such as how motion-based gaming can hasten the progress of recovering stroke patients, as well as how substance abuse patients can practice skills and behaviors in virtual worlds to prevent real-world relapses.
The foundation intends to announce the recipients of the grants at a press conference this coming Thursday.
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If you think about it playing a video game is probably the most cognitive exercises we do in the course of a normal day.
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