Sonya Arshad, Muhammad Nisar, Mushkbar Fatima, Sadaf Ahmed.
Cognitive and brain plasticity by performing Small scale brain activities in youth.
Pak J Neurological Sci Jan ;14(1):16-21.

Background: Is playing video game really a waste of time? No…!!! It’s merely a simple way of making the brain physiology better, smarter and faster. Great quality games, which are testing, enlightening, and retaining, can make learning charming and compelling. Studies have shown that people who are engaged in playing video games have more grey matter in their brains which results in boosting up their cognitive skills. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: This study was proposed to find out the enhanced cognitive skills of the brain acquired by playing small scale brain activities. METHODOLOGY: A cross-sectional study conducted on 80 participants (age between 18 to 25years) of both genders recruited by convenience based sampling and equally divided into two groups: gamers and non-gamers. They were asked to fill the questionnaire and to assess their intellectual potentials six tests were performed namely vision sharpness, subitizing, mind alertness, multi-tasking, decision making and memory. Data analysis was done by SPSS version 22. RESULT: The results showed that the mean of vision sharpness test for gamer group 7.96±1.83 and a non-gamer group 4.93±1.77, the mean of multi-tasking test 12.79±2.03 and 10.11±2.06 of both groups, mean memory test of gamer 11.18±2.97 and non-gamer 8.11±2.60. The mean subitizing test is 20.66±2.58 of gamer and 12.88±5.02 of non-gamer. All the tests showed statistically significant difference between gamer group and non-gamer group with the p-value < 0.05. CONCLUSION: It was concluded that playing video games can be a significant tool to mold an inefficient brain to a skilled one.

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