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I'm not familiar with any body of research backing up video games - I've found some actually that indicated the opposite. But I'd love if you shared!

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Here's one (behind paywall unfortunately) by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development that "found significant gray matter (GM) increase in right hippocampal formation (HC), right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and bilateral cerebellum in the training group" that was trained for 2 months for at least 30 min per day with a platformer game:-

http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/v19/n2/pdf/mp2013120a.pdf

But it seems brain training games don't seem to provide any conclusive benifit:- http://longevity3.stanford.edu/blog/2014/10/15/the-consensus...

What did the control group do instead? It seems that video games would be a great replacement/complement to the crossword puzzles people do in their elder years.

While you have a career or if you have a hobby, I suspect any new skill that you practiced would lead to similar mental simulation.

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