Could gaming help treat depression and anxiety?

Popular video games have the potential to provide low-cost, easy access, effective and stigma-free support for some mental health issues

Postgraduate researcher Jessica Mangione and lab Director Dr Mark Campbell. Picture: Diarmuid Greene / True Media

Parents battling to get the controllers and headsets away from children and teens might want look away but Irish researchers have found that popular video games might prove to be a low-cost, easy access, effective and stigma-free support for some mental health issues

Lero is the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software: it is a world leader in connected-health research and brings together expert software teams from universities and institutes of technology across Ireland in a co-ordinated centre of research excellence.