{"id":77740,"date":"2018-04-12T08:42:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T15:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/video-gaming-as-a-geroprotective-strategy"},"modified":"2018-04-12T08:42:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T15:42:45","slug":"video-gaming-as-a-geroprotective-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/video-gaming-as-a-geroprotective-strategy","title":{"rendered":"Video Gaming as a Geroprotective Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/video-gaming-as-a-geroprotective-strategy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contrary to certain sensationalist articles declaring that video games are harmful, there is, in fact, growing evidence that playing video games may have a positive effect on cognitive health, particularly in older people [1].<\/p>\n<p>Today, we will be taking a look at the scientific evidence to see if brain training or hitting your favorite video game titles could help keep you healthy as you age.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/video-gaming-as-a-geroprotective-strategy\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/video-gaming-as-a-geroprotective-strategy\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to certain sensationalist articles declaring that video games are harmful, there is, in fact, growing evidence that playing video games may have a positive effect on cognitive health, particularly in older people [1]. Today, we will be taking a look at the scientific evidence to see if brain training or hitting your favorite video [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77740","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}