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96: Jane McGonigal | Gaming Your Way to Health and Happiness

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The Effects of Gaming on Mental Health

There's an amazing study on this. People who are serving in the military can game up to 40 hours a week and every hour they game, they improve all of their mental health and long-term sort of return to home. So yeah, that's actually been studied that well,. They can actually gain more than the rest of us and benefit. That's so crazy. And it's just because it's such a stressful situation that the ability to control your brain, not prevent, not create the flashbacks, not experience the physiological cortisol is key.

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