Category: Mental health
What characterizes a video game designed to help kids with mental health issues? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Just how does a video game designed to help kids with ADHD, depression and anxiety differ from other video games? Barry Bryant, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins, recently completed a study looking at such games and has some observations. Bryant: …
Having kids using mental health care gaming works best at a computer, Elizabeth Tracey reports
What does a survey of video games to help kid’s mental health show? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Can video games help children and adolescents with mental health issues like anxiety, ADHD or depression? A Johns Hopkins study led by psychiatrist Barry Bryant aimed to find out. Bryant: What we found were about 30 randomized controlled trials looking …
Can video games help fill in the gap between kids who need mental health care and the dearth of providers? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Mental health issues are skyrocketing among US youth, data shows. Barry Bryant, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins, wondered whether technology might be able to step into this gap with a recent study looking at video games for three common mental …
It’s just becoming clear that social media can be addictive and harmful, Elizabeth
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Tracey reports Depression and social media use are linked, a recent study by Johns Hopkins child and adolescent psychiatrist Carol Vidal found. This adds to burgeoning research finding dangers of addictive social media use, and may result in formal classification …
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What can help break social media addiction? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Rewards that activate pleasure centers in our brains are baked into social media platforms, and that can be a recipe for addiction. That’s according to Carol Vidal, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins and author of a recent …
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