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How do video games affect fine motor skills?

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Dr. Johanna Fricke answered

Specializes in Pediatrics - Developmental and Behavioral

Video game players: improve their visual attention & eye-hand coordination, but they use navigation strategies reliant on the brain's reward system (caudate nucleus), not its spatial memory system (hippocampus). Resultant decreases in hippocampal structure (grey matter) & function increase risk of neurological disorders like Alzheimer's. Long-term studies using functional MRI's are needed to define degree of risk.

Answered 11/6/2015

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