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The human brain contains billions of nerves that link it to various body parts making it the most complex body organ. It supports proper functioning of muscles in doing body movements, and administers the development of various areas of human life.

It was found out that the male brain is always 10% larger than female brains in almost all stages of life. When people reach age six, the brain is 95% as big as an adult brain. However, these sizes tell nothing on how developed the brain is. Despite having almost the same brain size, the brain level of a child and an adult is certainly not the same. Brain development peaks during puberty stage.

If the adolescent does lot of sports during puberty, most brain cells will be configured in that thinking. The same goes for music and academics. But most adolescents during this stage are focused on playing video games.

Effects of video games to brain advancement already grabbed attention from researchers. Minimal relationship and contrasting notions were acquired from early studies in 1980s. Its outcomes may be of less help for that time, but it enabled modern studies to have more useful results.

Recent Japanese studies revealed that video games can greatly develop only certain brain portion. Those portions are greatly responsible for vision and movement. On the other hand, the biggest brain segment devoted to emotion and intellect known as the frontal lobe, did not show significant development.

Researchers were able to monitor brain segment usage in real-time by using digital imaging techniques. In the test, one group was made to play video games while another group was to undergo Kraepelin test wherein one-digit numbers are to be added for a certain period of time. The first group showed brain activities and usage in parts concerned for vision and movement. Though only the left hemisphere is needed for mathematical thinking, the other group also exhibited brain usage even in right hemisphere, the area responsible for creativity.

Further studies revealed that number exercises are more stimulating than music. Reading was also observed to have brain usage for the frontal lobe.

Brain cells might have poor quality as the person gets older if the frontal lobe will be given minimal usage during its development peak in adolescence stage. Recent observations caused the worry of underperformance in intellectual aspect for the next generation. This is the most dreaded scenario by the researchers.

This study earned relevant and other useful feedbacks from typical gamers and students. Tactical and strategy games might cause brain usage for some other part aside from vision and movement. But the study did not specify the particular game genre used during research. Some interesting games to study might be used halo 3 odst or cheap street fighter 4. To find out what games are the best for different types of skills you can use video gamer as a reference. Some students were still top performers in school though they are actively involved in video games. Video game effects seem to manifest in emotional aspect for some gamers. For such cases, this study might have opened another interesting topic about games – its effect on emotional development.

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