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Researchers study how to better treat mental health problems for seniors and youth

Peak Web November 8, 2018

  Video games can help seniors maintain health SFU education and gerontology researcher David Kaufman has found that playing video games is good for the mental health of the elderly. Kaufman’s research, which surveyed 1,200 seniors, indicates that video games slow “mental decline” and help seniors build and maintain social connections, staving off feelings of loneliness and depression. Many among the elderly are socially isolated. Seniors who played video games with each other were found to gain more from it than seniors who played alone. As part of this analysis, Kaufman's research team created team-based video game competitions at residential…

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SFU partners with Fraser Health to open world-class medical imaging facility

Peak Web October 8, 2018

  SFU and the Fraser Health Authority have partnered to open a brand-new medical imaging facility at the Surrey Memorial Hospital. The facility, named ImageTech, went public on September 18, and is hailed by a SFU media release to be…

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SFU researchers investigate ecological and human health

Peak Web June 13, 2018

  B.C. coastal waters contain high levels of plastic SFU’s Ecotoxicology Research group has found high levels of microplastic in the waters of the Lambert Channel and the Baynes Sound on the coast of Denman Island. The group published a…

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