Since the appearance of Candy Crush had not presented a game for phones so successful and massive, and that had the effect of Pokemon Go on users around the world.This application also has the particularity of combining the world real with the game , generating situations that have forced the authorities to issue warnings and discuss whether the effect of Pokemon Go could be considered harmful to users.
This is the effect of Pokemon Go in your brain
Although officially launched in July 2016 for the United States, Australia and New Zealand, Pokemon Go has immediately become a worldwide phenomenon.The game consists of an application for cell phones with the that you can locate characters from this famous series of Japanese animation in the real world.This implies that you should move with t or phone through different spaces in cities and parks, catching pokemones and interacting with other users.
The success of the game has been extraordinary, but that has not prevented criticism from emerging from some situations that have begun to emerge have been presented: there have been overwhelmed players, who have suffered spectacular falls and in some cases have lost their phones due to theft, by hunting pokemon in unsafe or very lonely areas of their cities.But this is not all.
Although it is too early for studies on the effect of Pokemon Go on your brain, some approaches are being produced from other research on the effects of various video games or electronic equipment such as GPS.This is the case of Professor Elan Barenholtz , from the Center for Complex Systems and Sciences of the Ce I boast of the Atlantic University of Florida, which in an article in Los Angeles Magazine affirmed that Pokemon Go could produce effects similar to those that cause drugs.
Drugs usually affect the reward centers of the brain, and this is how they generate addiction; Conventional video games also stimulate these areas of the brain, and Barenholtz fears that in the case of Pokemon Go, by combining virtual figures with reality, it ends up causing an even deeper impact on these centers, thus generating a greater dependence.The researcher also recognizes that it is very premature to make clear statements about the effect of Pokemon Go, as long as there are no studies and a good follow-up on the behavior of the players.
Another neuroscientist, Dr. Colin Ellard , from the University of Waterloo, in Toronto, also considers that it is too early to make categorical statements about the possible neurological effects of Pokemon Go.On the one hand he thinks that the game could help depressive people or that they suffer from anxiety, by having them go outside by bus Pikachu, or Charizard.On the other, he believes that by concentrating on the phone and virtual figures, the benign effects of moving outdoors or through the streets of a safe city are likely to diminish or disappear (the activation of the centers of pleasure and the reduction of stress).
Ellard recalled that there are studies on the excessive use of video games, linking them to the appearance of symptoms of Alzheimer's disease , and others, conducted by researchers at McGill University, who have shown how the constant use of phone and car GPS can stunt specialized brain areas in spatial orientation, such as the hippocampus or caudate nucleus.
The recommendation would be not to overuse this game, and perhaps clarify the possible effect to Pokemon Go turning off the phone and enjoying the green spaces your city offers.
Read also 9 effects of video games on your brain.
Images: Eduardo Woo, Sadie Hernandez, NIH Image Gallery, Giovanna Durgoni
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