How video games could unlock new treatments for Parkinson’s
From University of California – Riverside 19/10/23 A$5 million NIH grant is adding an ‘extra life’ to Parkinson’s research, with patients playing video games during brain surgery to help researchers understand better how the brain regulates movement. Vasileios Christopoulos, assistant professor of bioengineering at UC Riverside, is leading the five-year project whose goal is to […]
Tetris hope: Video game effective in preventing post-traumatic stress after difficult childbirth
From University of Lausanne 03/10/23 Playing Tetris for fifteen minutes can prevent psychological trauma in mothers after a difficult birth. These are the conclusions of a large-scale study conducted at CHUV and HUG and published in Molecular Psychiatry. The study’s findings pave the way for a routine intervention to prevent the development of post-traumatic stress […]