{"id":171627,"date":"2023-09-09T00:42:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T05:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-use-video-games-to-measure-the-eye-brain-body-connection"},"modified":"2023-09-09T00:42:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T05:42:01","slug":"scientists-use-video-games-to-measure-the-eye-brain-body-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-use-video-games-to-measure-the-eye-brain-body-connection","title":{"rendered":"Scientists use video games to measure the eye-brain-body connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-use-video-games-to-measure-the-eye-brain-body-connection.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Video games could give ophthalmologists an easy window not into the soul, but into eye health and the eye-brain-body connection \u2014 the three-way reciprocal communication that influences our actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInfusing science into games is like sneaking broccoli into ice cream,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.stanford.edu\/khizer-khaderi\">Khizer Khaderi<\/a>, MD, a clinical associate professor of ophthalmology. \u201cIt removes the resistance to do something that may not be viewed as fun, such as eating vegetables.\u201d Or in this case, evaluating your vision health.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/\">Stanford Medicine<\/a>-led study, researchers employed video games to evaluate participants\u2019 field of vision and visual stamina, their ability to distinguish contrast, and other factors that can indicate common eye diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video games could give ophthalmologists an easy window not into the soul, but into eye health and the eye-brain-body connection \u2014 the three-way reciprocal communication that influences our actions. \u201cInfusing science into games is like sneaking broccoli into ice cream,\u201d said Khizer Khaderi, MD, a clinical associate professor of ophthalmology. \u201cIt removes the resistance to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1509,1506,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-entertainment","category-food","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}