Gaming can provide many opportunities to address and treat cognition deficits. Below, you will find the evidence that supports the therapeutic use of video games to improve cognition. Please reference the linked articles to read the full text.

1. Playing Super Mario 64 increases hippocampal grey matter in older adults: Super Mario 64

2. Exergames in immersive virtual reality environment: Fruit Ninja VR

3. Action video games have been shown to have beneficial effects on attentional control, working memory, sensorimotor, and higher cognitive functions: Bust a Move & Geometry Wars: Galaxies

4. Xbox 360 Kinect cognitive games improve slowness, complexity of EEG, and cognitive functions in Individuals with mild cognitive impairments: Xbox 360 Kinect

5. Big Brain Academy: Nintendo DS (Switch)

6. Action and puzzle games had improved outcomes on processing, reaction time, memory, task switching/multitasking, and mental spatial rotation: Tetris & Call of Duty Modern Warfare

7. Playing shooter and racing/driving video games improves visual search: Need for Speed & Medal of Honor (Xbox 360)

8. Puzzle video games can help improve executive functions: Cut The Rope, Fruit Ninja, Modern Combat, Starfront Collision (Mobile)

9. Compared to brain training games, puzzles games showed gains in spatial tests as well as problem solving, spatial, and persistence skills: Portal 2 (Personal Computer)

10. Exergames improved cognition in clinical and non-clinical population with significant effects on executive function, attention, and visuospatial skills: Wii Sports, Dance Dance Revolution, Your Shape Fitness Evolved