{"id":13186,"date":"2025-07-31T00:55:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T00:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=13186"},"modified":"2025-07-31T00:55:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T00:55:52","slug":"why-dungeons-and-dragons-is-good-for-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=13186","title":{"rendered":"Why Dungeons and Dragons Is Good for Your Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Why Dungeons and Dragons Is Good for Your Brain<\/p>\n<p>Researchers and therapists explore the mental health benefits of tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article_authors-s5nSV\">By Rachel Feltman &amp; Kelso Harper <\/p>\n<h2>On supporting science journalism<\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;re enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-block=\"sciam\/paragraph\">From building confidence to processing trauma, tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons &amp; Dragons are proving to be powerful tools for mental health. Science Quickly\u2019s Rachel Feltman spoke to researchers and professional Dropout&#8217;s dungeon master Brennan Lee Mulligan to explore how collaborative storytelling can help us thrive\u2014and even be used as therapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Dungeons and Dragons Is Good for Your Brain Researchers and therapists explore the mental health benefits of tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons. By Rachel Feltman &amp; Kelso Harper On supporting science journalism If you&#8217;re enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[2121,4759,4758,1547],"class_list":{"0":"post-13186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-brain","9":"tag-dragons","10":"tag-dungeons","11":"tag-good"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}