Video games can be entertaining, but could they also help improve mental health?…
“A lot of them look exactly the same as games that someone could play just for fun. So they may have cartoon characters, they could have missions, but embedded in that game are treatment mechanisms,” said Tracy Dennis, Professor of Psychology at Hunter College.
Dennis designed one such game called Personal Zen. She says preliminary findings show after playing the game for 20 minutes the brain starts processing negative information differently.
