When parents tell you that video games are destroying your eyes, just simply tell them they're wrong and that in fact 40 hours of video games can actually improve vision with children that were born with cataracts.
Normally found in the elderly, cataracts can be found in newborns an can affect their lives by forever having blurry and distorted vision. Surgery or special contact lenses can help with cataracts, but for some people it is not a permanent.
Daphne Maurer, Psychologist at McMaster University, says that she might have found a way to help children with cataracts. In an experiment she conducted, patients played 10 hours of fast-paced action video games for four weeks.
After just 10 hours of playing the games they were playing, which involved shooters, patients noticed an improvement in their vision; they were able to see further down the eye chart, they were even able to distinguish facial details.
"Video games have got a lot going for them in terms of them being an optimal visual therapy," said Maurer at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference.
Source: DailyMail
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