Marketplace Tech concludes our Mind Games series this week with another look at the intersection of video games and mental health. You may remember yesterday we went to University of Southern California, where they’re building virtual reality programs for soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder. Today we’re going to a VA hospital in New York City where these programs are being administered.

Today, lawmakers in the House are voting on a bill that could fight the growing problem of patent trolls. Some estimates put the annual cost of patent lawsuits at $80 billion. The Innovation Act could help put a dent in that. It has support from tons of tech companies. In an ever-updating society where consumers are constant targets of tech marketing, it’s no wonder we’ve developed quite an appetite for replacing the old with the latest and greatest. But a new study from Yale University out this week says a lot of the precious ingredients of our consumer technology is kind of irreplaceable. And, in today’s Mind Games, how video games are being used to treat PTSD.

Electronic cigarettes are getting more popular all the time. Which may be why more places are starting to put more restrictions on the technology. Today in New York, the City Council is considering whether to restrict e-cigarettes just like regular cigarettes–banning their use in offices, in restaurants, and on beaches. The more technology kids interact with, the more adults want to set some controls on that interaction. New options do abound. One of the latest from a company called FiLIP: a smartwatch that lets parents control who the kid calls, among other things. And, the latest Mind Games, Marketplace Tech’s series on video games and mental health.

This week we’re looking at the intersection of video games and mental health. Yesterday we talked to a game designer; tomorrow we’ll talk to a researcher. Today we’re going to hear from an occupational therapist. Amanda Foran works with children and adults who are on the Autism spectrum at Motion Therapy in Rockville, Md. She’s found that video games — played by both people on and off the spectrum — can help build social interaction skills.

This week, Marketplace Tech takes a look at the intersection of video games and mental health. We’ll be talking with a few different people — researchers, gamers, and game designers. Today we’ll speak with artist Kara Stone. She recently built her first video game, but instead of a battlefield or a fantasy world, the game’s landscape is built around the experience of mental illness.

You know what happens at the end of the week by now, right? Silicon Tally, the game where Marketplace Tech host Ben Johnson and a worthy adversary try and stump each other with numbers from the week’s tech news. Today it’s Cory Doctorow, awesome science fiction author and co-editor of the group blog Boing Boing. Plus, Reddit’s gift exchange.

When it comes to this week’s holiday shopping plans, we seem to be looking at another year of the tablet. But that isn’t the only shopping trend this year centered around gadgets. I’m talking smart devices. Whether it’s the Wi-Fi capable smoke detector or a home-locking system that talks to your smart phone, there are an increasing number of products for sale. Not all of the stocking stuffers are totally essential, but they do give us a sense of our connected future.

Lots of people are probably preparing to lose sleep tonight while they worry about whether their Thanksgiving feast will come out of the oven OK. Well, we wanted to talk turkey with a techie. So we called up Scott Heimendinger. He used to work for Microsoft and IBM. Today, he’s the director of applied research for the Modernist Cuisine cookbooks. And, we talk with a mathematician from New York University who unveiled a new species of drone this week that flies like a jellyfish.

Gary Vaynerchuk will make a personal video for you. He even sent a guy in Minnesota a cheeseburger once after the guy asked him for one on Twitter. The New Jersey dude’s first really successful business was winelibrary.com. Now, brands like GE, Pepsi, and the New York Jets ask his agency, Vayner Media, to help with their social media mojo. And, whether you’re an iPhone or an Android, one of the features that has had a lot of attention recently is voice recognition. But there’s one problem: If you’re speaking with accented English, your device’s voice recognition won’t work nearly as well.