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Another study, this time out of Wheeling, West Virginia in the USA. Students at Wheeling Jesuit University completed a study into the analgesic properties of video games. The study results indicate that playing sports or fighting video games produces a dramatic level of pain distraction. Now I can see why this study might have been embraced by at least some of the students at WJU.

“OK, we’re going to get half of the class over there playing some excellent sports and fighting video games, then the rest of us are going to attach electrodes to your nipples, dial up the current and then ask whether it hurts.” Sure it sounds like a typical drunken night of video gaming that got a bit out of hand, but by all accounts this was an honest to goodness genuine academic study, complete with a Professor with an amusing name. Director of Undergraduate Research, Associate Professor of Psychology, Dr Bryan Raudenbush, says the study results suggest that video games could help distract patients from painful injections or dental work.

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