Neuropsychological Perspective of South Indian Folk Games – Insight

Today television, facebook, videogames and mobile phones are becoming mandatory in everyone’s life especially in children. All the children are widely using the gadgets. Because of the social change in the society and family structure the children depends on gadgets. The usage of the gadgets makes the children lethargic which leads them to become obese and further consequences in their physical health and related behavioural issues. There are some Indian games (Tamil origin) which helps in focusing on improving the children attention and concentration, memory, problem solving and improves their physical health along with team co ordination. It is an exploratory study which helps a new gateway for our field of Clinical Psychology. The present study attempted to explore the Indian culture games (Tamil Origin) on improving the children cognitive functions and associated functions which make them to excel in their curricular and co-curricular activities.