Shooter video games really do rot your brain

Playing violent'shooter' video games can damage the brain and may even increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease, brain scans suggest. Researchers at the University of Montreal got around 100 people to play a range of popular'shooter' games such as Call Of Duty, Killzone and Borderlands 2 for a total of 90 hours. They also gave them copes of non-violent games from the Super Mario series. By the end of the study, they found that people who habitually played action games had fewer neurons in their hippocampus, a key memory center in the brain. However, those who played non-violent games ended the study with more essential gray matter in their brains.