10 Benefits of playing video games

 There were times when children used to go to playground and play till they drop. But now a days this culture is fading out. Elders in the family would always emphasize the importance of playing physical games instead of sedentary video games. But video games have other benefits. Some of them are listed below.

1. Playing video games relieve children from day to day worries of home work etc. This in turn help them better concentrate on other activities. If a children has some injury it helps in distracting mind that lessens his pain for a while.
2. Griffiths a professor at Nottingham University wrote in a medical journal that playing games could help children with attention deficit disorders. Research indicates that the children could gain social skills.
3. Playing video games also improve our cognitive ability. This is because most of the games makes us follow their rules think tactically and make fast decision to win in the end.
4. Video games improve our hand eye coordination to a great extent. There was one interesting but small study by doctors at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York noticed a link between gaming and improved performance in laparoscopic surgery. A study of 303 laparoscopic surgeons (82 percent men; 18 percent women)  showed that surgeons who played video games requiring spatial skills and hand dexterity and then performed a drill testing these skills were significantly faster at their first attempt and across all 10 trials than the surgeons who did not the play video games first.
5. Gaming is a distraction from overeating and smoking. Many researches has proved that video games help us avoid gorging on junk food and light up less frequently.
6. Video games can be used as learning aids for kids. As we know children are at the peak of their attention when they play video game and suppose if we include some useful lessons in between these games what would happen? Definitely children would learn and assimilate it faster and for a much longer time.
7. Games are known to enhance creativity and inculcate a taste for graphics, design and technology.
8. Some games are played as a team member so they in the end inculcate team spirit in the player and also help one easily socialize.
9. Video games stimulate one to take fast and good decisions. This actually help them think on their feet in the real life as well.
10. The scientists believe that training with video games may serve to reduce gender differences in visual and spatial processing, and thwart some of the cognitive declines that come with aging. 

As with other things video games if used in excess have their kitty of negative effects.Playing excess of video games effects one eye sight, studies etc. 

10 Benefits of playing video games