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A British youth overcame what is called “lazy eye syndrome” thanks to a doctor’s prescription of Mario Kart DS, restoring his right eye from “near blindness” to a 250 per cent improvement.
What’s worse: Smelling bad or only imagining you smell bad? Psychiatrists are considering adding olfactory reference syndrome – a syndrome where the victim believes they emit an imagined foul odour – to The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Researchers at the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology have found a way to encase living cells in stackable cubes to create what some are calling LEGO organs.
While we’re busy fumbling through dark corridors and navigating twisting platforms searching for health packs, food and other esoteric life-saving items, the Air Force is healing wounds with lasers and nanotechnology.
Various scientific and medical studies performed over the past few years have shown video games to cause violent behaviour, obesity and crooked fingers among young people, but at least we still have our teeth – or do we?
We’ve heard of Wiis in medicine before — but now instead of handing out Nintendo’s little white giant to burn victims and physical therapy patients, some doctors are using them as training tools.
Researchers at two different institutions in the UK have identified an injury, and an increase in its incidence, associated with playing the Wii.
US nonprofit group Soldier’s Angels is donating Nintendo Wiis to severely wounded veterans.
Donna Jo Blake, Chief of Physical Medicine Rehabilitation at Department of Veterans Affairs in Eastern Colorado thinks that this could lead to (and I do apologise for this) “Wii-hablitation”.
“We are aware of many colleagues throughout the Veterans Affairs medical system who have developed dynamic Wii programs in multiple areas, including PolyTrauma, Spinal Cord Injury/Traumatic Brain Injury, and Long Term Care,” says Blake, “Wii gaming has great potential for physical, mental and emotional well-being. We are delighted to receive this support from Soldiers’ Angels.”
Nonprofit Donates Wiis To Injured Soldiers [The Wiire]
The head of Europe’s first treatment centre for gaming addicts has revealed that 90% of young people who seek counseling for compulsive gaming habits aren’t actually addicts at all.
Keith Bakker of The Smith & Jones Centre in Amsterdam explains that while a gamers who show other addictive behaviours such as drinking or taking drugs have been successfully treated using traditional abstinence-based treatment models, the vast majority of compulsive gamers have a social problem, rather than a psychological one. “This gaming problem is a result of the society we live in today,” Mr Bakker told BBC News. “Eighty per cent of the young people we see have been bullied at school and feel isolated. Many of the symptoms they have can be solved by going back to good old fashioned communication.”
