Don’t worry, playing games won’t cause Alzheimer’s disease
National newspapers and gaming outlets have been abuzz over the past few hours over a new study released in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The study, entitled “Habitual action video game playing is associated with caudate nucleus dependent navigational strategies” examined the performance of gamers versus non-gamers in a spatial aware maze test, with the researchers suggesting that their findings indicated there could be a link between the development of Alzheimer’s disease and playing video games. Throughout the study, the researchers tested the ways in which people who played games for more around 18 hours a week compared to a group of non-gamers. They found that gamers tackled tasks in different ways using different responses while also discovering that a brain wave called N2PC works differently in gamers. This evidence pointed to a definite link between the playing of video games and the risk of developers Alzheimer’s disease in later life argued the researchers. The problem is that the study contains numerous issues according to Chris Chambers