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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ganegconsul" data-source="post: 13998898" data-attributes="member: 442955">Social websites harm children's brains: Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscientist    Social networking websites are causing alarming changes in the brains of young users, an eminent scientist has warned    Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are said to shorten attention spans, encourage instant gratification and make young people more self-centred    many youngsters lack the ability to communicate or concentrate away from their screens    More than 150million use Facebook to keep in touch with friends, share photographs and videos and post regular updates of their movements and thoughts. A further six million have signed up to Twitter, the 'micro-blogging' service that lets users circulate text messages about themselves. But while the sites are popular - and extremely profitable - a growing number of psychologists and neuroscientists believe they may be doing more harm than good.    Baroness Greenfield, an Oxford University neuroscientist and director of the Royal Institution, believes repeated exposure could effectively 'rewire' the brain     exposure to computer games, instant messaging, chat rooms and social networking sites could leave a generation with poor attention spans    Lady Greenfield told the Lords a teacher of 30 years had told her she had noticed a sharp decline in the ability of her pupils to understand others    Most games only trigger the 'flight or fight' region of the brain, rather than the vital areas responsible for reasoning    Sue Palmer, author of Toxic Childhood, said: 'We are seeing children's brain development damaged because they don't engage in the activity they have engaged in for millennia.   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1197491/How-computers-harm-childrens-future--damaging-brains.html Children who spend hour after hour on the computer may be damaging a vital part of their brains    if we were to scan the brains of young people who spend a lot of time playing computer games and in chatrooms, we would find that the prefrontal cortex is damaged, underdeveloped or underactive - just as it is in gamblers, schizophrenics or the obese.     We would find that they become confused between reality and screen life in their virtual world. And that in this confusion, they risk losing, neurologically, the ability to think  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/children_shealth/8825655/Video-games-can-alter-childrens-brains.html  Video games 'can alter children's brains'  Children should "feel the grass under their feet" rather than play addictive computer games which can harm their mental development, a leading scientist has said      Technology that plays strongly on the senses – like video games – can literally "blow the mind" by temporarily or permanently deactivating certain nerve connections in the brain    Another study by Japanese scientists ten years ago warned that because video games only stimulate the brain regions responsible for vision and movement, other parts of the mind responsible for behaviour, emotion and learning could become underdeveloped    a screen may be permanently damaging to a child's brain  <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/aug/19/games.schools" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/aug/19/games.schools</a>    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.   Using the most sophisticated technology available, the level of brain activity was measured in hundreds of teenagers playing a Nintendo game and compared to the brain scans of other students doing a simple, repetitive arithmetical exercise. To the surprise of brain-mapping expert Professor Ryuta Kawashima and his team at Tohoku University in Japan, it was found that the computer game only stimulated activity in the parts of the brain associated with vision and movement    The students who played computer games were halting the process of brain development and affecting their ability to control potentially anti-social elements of their behavior    'The implications are very serious for an increasingly violent society and these students will be doing more and more bad things if they are playing games and not doing other things like reading aloud or learning arithmetic.'   <a href="http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2007/12/doctor-claims-g/" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2007/12/doctor-claims-g/</a>    Doctor Claims Gaming Causes Brain Damage Based on a recent study, Dr. Chou Yuan-hua claims that playing videogames (specifically violent ones) slows blood flow to the brain, and that prolonged exposure can lead to brain damage    The article ends with a statement from the doctor regarding the physical characteristics of schizophrenia, which happen to be rather similar to those found by his study. While his statement isn’t wrong, the placement of his words regarding the condition is, at best, confusing to readers, and at worst, is designed to cause readers of the article to infer certain relationships between schizophrenia and gaming.  <a href="http://www.todaysthv.com/news/article/219871/124/Long-term-video-gaming-can-damage-a-boys-brain" target="_blank">http://www.todaysthv.com/news/article/219871/124/Long-term-video-gaming-can-damage-a-boys-brain</a>    there's new data that shows spending time in front of a screen may be permanently damaging to a child's brain, especially boys    when a child plays a video game, especially violent games hours on end, it can halt the development of the part of the brain associated with motivation - especially the brain of a young boy. Gamer Jace Cienega says, "Normal life, you can't be like you are like in a video game...in a video game you are pretty much unstoppable."    Ennalugo Zorola's son is a gamer says, "He was playing 2-3 hours, and he fainted his eyes turned white, turned back, and we had to call the ambulance."    <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2198549/Coroner-warns-Call-Duty-video-game-danger-boy-14-dies-18-rating-reason-tells-distraught-mother.html" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2198549/Coroner-warns-Call-Duty-video-game-danger-boy-14-dies-18-rating-reason-tells-distraught-mother.html</a>    Coroner warns of video game danger after boy, 14    A coroner yesterday urged parents to stop their children using adult video games after a boy of 14 hanged himself after playing Call of Duty.  Callum Green regularly played the Certificate 18 game with his stepfather despite it featuring gruesome scenes of soldiers trying to kill each other.  The boy’s behaviour deteriorated and, after being grounded by his mother following a row, he was found hanging by his school tie from his bunk bed.  terrorist Mohammed Merah also played Call Of Duty before killing three soldiers and four civilians – including a rabbi and three children – in Toulouse in March    http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/a-22-year-old-mother-kills-her-infant-son-because-he-interrupted-her-farmville-game-on-facebook/question-2643765/  A 22-Year-Old Mother Kills Her Infant Son Because He Interrupted Her Farmville Game on Facebook  The 22-year-old Jacksonville, Florida resident recently plead guilty to killing her 3-month-old son over an online game. She admits that Dylan Lee Edmonsonhad been crying for a while as she played the popular <a href="http://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> game <a href="http://www.farmville.com/" target="_blank">Farmville</a>.    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2029145/13-year-old-boy-killed-baby-sister-shaking--crying-distracted-playing-video-game.html  Boy, 13, 'killed baby sister by shaking her... because her crying distracted him from his video game'http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2085369/Internet-addiction-cause-physical-damage-brain-just-like-drugs-say-researchers.html    Inernet addiction disrupts nerve wiring in the brains of teenagers, a study has found - causing a level of brain damage normally seen in heavy substance abusers.  Similar effects have been seen in the brains of people exposed to alcohol, cocaine and cannabis.  The discovery shows that being hooked on a behaviour can be just as physically damaging as addiction to drugs, scientists believe.    Brain scans showed significant damage to white matter in the brain, proving, the researchers claim, that 'behavioural' addictions can cause physical brain damage in the same way as drug addictions.   Internet addiction disorder (IAD) is a recently recognised condition characterised by out-of-control internet use.    In the IAD-diagnosed teenagers, the scientists found evidence of disruption to 'white matter' nerve fibres connecting vital parts of the brain involved in emotions, decision making, and self-control  <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/08/13/teens-and-video-games-how-much-is-too-much/" target="_blank">http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/08/13/teens-and-video-games-how-much-is-too-much/</a>    The gamer community had a near-miss this week in Ohio, when a 15-year-old boy collapsed after playing "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" for up to five days straight.  The Columbus teen was rushed to the hospital with <a href="http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2760-infographic-limits-of-human-survival.html" target="_blank">severe dehydration</a>  Players who delve too deeply into their electronic worlds can face various health risks, ranging from deep vein thrombosis, or blood clots, to severe dehydration.    For instance, in July, a Taiwanese teenager was found dead after sitting for 40 hours in an Internet cafe playing.  At the time, doctors speculated he died from a heart attack caused by a blood clot that formed during the long session  And last summer, a 20-year-old man from the U.K. died from a blood clot after spending 12-hour sessions on his Xbox. His father told "The Sun" newspaper, "He lived for his Xbox. I never dreamed he was in any danger    a preponderance of evidence links violent video games to an increase in aggressive behavior in teens    http://www.ranker.com/list/8-people-who-died-playing-video-games/autumn-spragg</blockquote>

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