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22 gru 2020 · While playing video games can be a fun pastime, and there are some potential benefits, there are health risks associated with too much gaming. They include repetitive stress injuries, vision problems, sleep deprivation, depression, and possibly addiction to playing.
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Game addiction problems can induce repetitive strain injuries, skin disorders or other health issues. Other problems include video game-provoked seizures in patients with epilepsy. [1] . In rare and extreme cases, deaths have resulted from excessive video game playing (see Deaths due to video game addiction). [2]
1 lis 2023 · Engaging in addictive gaming led to adverse outcomes such as lower academic scores, depression, and anxiety, as well as decreased self-esteem, life satisfaction, and social support. From the collected findings it could be concluded that extreme playing of video games can be classified as addictive.
Currently, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), video game addiction is defined as the steady and repetitive use of the Internet to play games frequently with different gamers, which leads to clinically significant distress and psychological changes as demonstrated by five or more criteri...
1 cze 2023 · These results showed that the player's psychophysiological reactions are conditioned by the video game in which they compete, finding that players of FPS or fighting games show greater hormonal changes associated with stress than players of MOBA-type games, such as LOL or DOTA (Gray et al., 2018; Schmidt et al., 2020; Sousa et al., 2020 ...
In 18 cases the gaming session before death was extremely long (around a day or even several days) with minimal rest. The cause of death was pulmonary embolism in 5 cases, cerebral hemorrhage in 2 cases, most of the rest was presumably due to fatal cardiac arrhythmia.
8 gru 2021 · There are many ways in which the techniques widely used in video games can lead to better health. For example, some popular commercial video games are used to help people with mental disorders, or with chronic pain.
