As Alexander Alekseev, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Director of the ROSBIOTECH Medical Institute, emphasized, prolonged exposure to a monitor can lead to visual impairment and excessive stress on the musculoskeletal system.
“First of all, on the cervical spine, in especially severe cases of gambling addiction - to exhaustion of the nervous system. However, these consequences do not develop simultaneously,” the specialist said.
According to Ekaterina Demyanovskaya, a neurologist, candidate of medical sciences, expert physician at the Gemotest Laboratory, gamers most often experience pain in the wrist and hand operating the mouse, numbness of 1-3 fingers or little fingers, aching pain in the back and neck, dry eye syndrome .
“When the conjunctiva of the eye turns red, there is itching, a feeling of a foreign body in the eye. Due to a long stay in a static sitting position in front of a monitor and, as a result, physical inactivity, energy resources are not used actively enough - the risk of gaining excess weight increases many times over. The mental-emotional status and central nervous system are also affected. Players often experience stress and emotional turmoil associated with failures or, conversely, successes in the game,” explained RT’s interlocutor.
Because of this, she says, sleep may be disturbed, mood swings and unmotivated aggression may occur.
“With prolonged abuse of computers and gadgets, gamers reduce the activity of systems that control balance, accuracy of movements, and long-term memory, reward mechanisms are disrupted, and cognitive abilities decrease. This phenomenon of cognitive decline is called digital dementia,” the doctor added.
Biotechnology expert Maria Korenkova stated that
spending a long time playing a computer game can cause headaches and vision problems, but not for everyone.
“Depends on many factors and the general health of the person. A headache may even occur not because of a computer game, but because of the position in which a person is sitting. If we talk in general about the impact of computer games on human health, then the more pressing question is about the impact on the psyche and the possibility of developing an addiction, which again does not threaten everyone,” Korenkova explained.
NTI Healthnet market expert Konstantin Martynenkov emphasized that in terms of cognitive load, there is a high dependence on the quality of the content itself, namely, how the brain processes it.
“For example, is it necessary to analyze and use synthetic functions. The criticality for a child’s brain and an adult’s may differ significantly,” he noted.
Earlier, reports appeared on social networks that a man in Surgut fell into a coma after playing on the computer for many hours.