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Gaming is bad for you!

Aug 19, 2001 9:16am CST tags: Industry News: PC & Console
This article at the observer describes the findings of a Japanese study that shows that (brace yourself...) "... computer games are damaging brain development and could lead to children being unable to control violent behavior". Riiiight!

Computer games are creating a dumbed-down generation of children far more disposed to violence than their parents, according to a controversial new study. The tendency to lose control is not due to children absorbing the aggression involved in the computer game itself, as previous researchers have suggested, but rather to the damage done by stunting the developing mind.

        

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