New research indicates that a novel, video-game-style intervention may be beneficial to people with MS.
Many people with multiple sclerosis — particularly progressive forms of the disease — experience, or at least fear, the loss of cognitive function as their disease progresses. For that reason, the question of whether puzzles, games, mind exercises, and the like might help is of great interest to this group.
Now a study published on June 25, 2020, in Multiple Sclerosis Journal suggests that a video game that can be played at home may help people with multiple sclerosis (MS) maintain — and even improve — processing speed better than word games.
Processing speed refers to the speed with which a person understands and responds to information. It is one of the cognitive functions most commonly affected by multiple sclerosis.
The study showed that both the video game and word games improved processing speed. But the participants in the video-game arm of the study maintained the gains achieved during the study period for at least eight weeks after they had stopped using the game, while the word-game control subjects did not.
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