Body and Brains of Gamers Probed

ElvenMonkey writes "The BBC News is reporting about researchers at the University of Hull who are performing what they call the first scientific research into what actually happens when you play computer games, using a method called 'mood testing' (previously used on athletes.) Hardly surprisingly results so far show that we don't like losing, and that gaming puts you into an altered state. I can see it now.. computer games, the next designer drug."

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[blackholepcs]

I'm glad I wasn't part of this. I don't think that I would have been believed as a gamer: decent tan, 210lbs (muscular, but not cut), eyes not sunken, perfect english skills, no twitches, and a bit of bling on the neck, wrists, and fingers. Not to say I am the only healthy and blinging gamer, but c'mon. I don't personally know any other gamers (read: people who play video games at least 4 hours a day every day) who go to the pool all the time or work out. Or go to the clubs dressed in last years income.