Gamers caught a very early glimpse of the future of serious games aimed at the health sector during the PlayMancer project’s demos at the latest Vienna Science Fair.
The European PlayMancer project is working hard to improve the technology for serious games engines and tools for 3-D networked gaming.
“We want to build actual games, serious games, around serious health-related problems like bulimia and chronic pain,” PlayMancer’s project manager Elias Kalapanidas tells ICT Results. “Using gaming in this way is really breaking new ground.” [continue reading…]
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This week ( and last)
The Guardian is running an excellent feature “Understanding People”. In yesterdays Observer, therapist Andrew G Marshall described what relationship therapy can do for couples on the rocks and what to expect from sessions.
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Most of us save things – memorabilia, collectibles, items from our childhood or from our children. But for more than an estimated million Americans, the saving may get out of hand and cross over to a psychiatric condition known as compulsive hoarding. [continue reading…]
Can one drug cure an addiction to another?
Is varenicline a new anti-addiction panacea? Time magazine takes a look at a new paper in the journal Biological Psychiatry says the drug, which carries the generic name varenicline, has also helped a group of regular drinkers consume less alcohol. So could varenicline be a new anti-addiction panacea? Link to read this article
Source: Time
