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Play video-games and get rewarded by your Brain

A recent research published in Translational Psychiatry journal has reported that frequent video game players are found to have higher volume of grey matter in key parts of the brain than those who play less or don't play at all. Frequent player were those who played for at least 12 hours in a week.

Researchers then performed MRI scans of brain of more than 150 video game players who were 14 year old on an average to conclude that frequent video game players have different structure and activity in parts of brain linked with rewarding system.Most important part of this rewards system is dopamine-related ventral striatum. This is eventually related to the addiction for video games and other things.

This research is claimed to be medically significant by Henrietta Bowden-Jones of Imperial college London neuroscience division because the findings further close the gap between the correlation of addiction with the volume of grey matter and variation in activity ventral striatum.Increased number of video games addicted teenagers may help medical science to determine relations between brain's motivational system and dopamine pathway.