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Can computer games improve mental health?

People Fixing the World

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Mind Light - A Game That Helps Children With Anxiety

Isabella grannick is a developmental psychology professor whoas developed several serious games. A few years ago, she and her team used her own twin boys to test out a game called mind light that her team designed to help children with anxiety. You play it on a computer, but you also have a head set or helmet, that measures brain waves and consense a child's anxiety levels and triggers a response. In the game play, you walk in into this game world, and you put on this helmet. And you learn that as you get calmer, the light grows bigger. As you get more sthe light becomes darker. The only way you can walk through this haunted house is

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