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Game Boy Effective Kid Tranq

Posted by Zonk on from the video-games-have-endless-uses dept.

yali writes "A new study shows that Game Boys are better than tranquilizers for calming children before surgery. Kids allowed to bring Game Boys into the OR showed no change in anxiety (compared to a small increase with tranquilizers, and a big increase in a control condition.) Kind of puts a different spin on analogies between games and drugs."

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  1. Child's Play by Schezar · · Score: 4, Informative

    Considering the ramifications of this article, I urge any of you with spare cash/games to check out Child's Play. It's a huge charity that collects video games and systems for children in hospitals, run by the folks at Penny Arcade

    I normally don't plug things, but this is too relevant to the article to ignore, and it can help out a lot of kids.

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  2. Re:No... Maybe? by calibanDNS · · Score: 2, Informative

    Buy a copy of Boktai or Boktai 2 and the sun is your ally.

    Also, the GBA SP is backlit, and you can mod the original GBA to add backlighting, so this is not really a big deal.