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Smarty Pants

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Smarty Pants

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Smarty Pants is an interactive trivia game for the Nintendo Wii that offers a variety of questions designed to test how smart players are. Questions are tailored to players’ age; this game is therefore suitable for individuals of all ages. Players can also compete against other players activities such as a dance-off or a tug-of-war.

BrainBashers

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BrainBashers

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BrainBashers is a free, online collection of riddles, brain-teasers, puzzles, and games designed to challenge players’ mental capabilities.

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Emergency Room: Heroic Measures

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Emergency Room: Heroic Measures

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This game allows the player to experience what its like to be a real paramedic. The player must ask the right questions and use proper diagnostics to uncover critical information as you treat and stabilize each patient. The player receives detailed feedback on your performance at the conclusion of every case.

Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2

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Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2

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In this sequel to Trauma Center: Under the Knife, players assume the role of a surgeon who must perform an operation in each chapter in order to advance in the game. Players are presented with a variety of medical cases that require different surgical procedures and treatments. Surgical tools such as needles, scalpels, and forceps are available to players while performing operations.

Stroke Rehabilitation

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Stroke Rehabilitation

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Rutgers University and The State University of New Jersey developed this software program and gaming glove designed to help patients recover hand function after experiencing a stroke. This virtual rehabilitation system is based on the Microsoft Xbox . The gaming glove can aid patients while they engage in finger flexing and manipulating the images on the screen.

Monster Garden

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Monster Garden

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Monster Garden, a web-based brain-training game, is a spatial memory exercise intended to help improve memory and attention. Players are briefly shown where monsters are hidden in a garden and then must make their way through without stepping on them. As players’ performance improves, the levels become harder.

Big Brain Academy

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Big Brain Academy

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Big Brain Academy is a brain-training puzzle game that provides cognitive challenges in five categories: think, analyze, memorize, compute, and identify. Players achieve their "brain weight" and discover their areas of strength and weakness. “Brain weight” increases as players complete the activities faster.

Heart Sense

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Heart Sense

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Heart Sense is a role-playing, web-based, free game designed to educate players about the risk of heart attacks. The game puts players in the shoes of a hero who must solve a crime while trying to find true love. Throughout the game, players run into characters experiencing heart attacks that they must help in order to receive clues and tips. This game was developed by the University of Pennsylvania.