http:\/\/blogs.desmoinesregister.com\/dmr\/index.php\/2011\/01\/17\/too-much-gaming-may-lead-to-depression-anxiety-study-finds\/<\/a><\/p>\r\nThe somewhat controversial study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics,\u00a0claimed that children who play video games too much may actually get addicted to them, an addiction that requires treatment.<\/p>\r\n
The research was co-authored\u00a0by\u00a0Professor Douglas Gentile of Iowa State University, and involved 3,034 elementary school children in Singapore during a two-year period. Nine percent of the children\u00a0would be considered “pathological” gamers.<\/p>\r\n
Children who were categorized as excessive gamers averaged 31 hours a week\u00a0playing\u00a0video\u00a0games, according to the study. And\u00a0kids who were impulsive and had\u00a0poor social skills were more prone to become addicted to video games.<\/p>\r\n
The study brought a quick response, and denial,\u00a0from the faming industry. And even some academics who study gaming questioned whether excessive gaming reaches the level of addiction.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
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If your kids are constantly playing video games,\u00a0they are at risk of suffering from\u00a0depression\u00a0and even addiction to the games,\u00a0according to\u00a0a new study.\u00a0 The\u00a0recent research, just released,\u00a0found that excessive gaming can also cause\u00a0anxiety, social fears and bad performance in school by children. http:\/\/blogs.desmoinesregister.com\/dmr\/index.php\/2011\/01\/17\/too-much-gaming-may-lead-to-depression-anxiety-study-finds\/ The somewhat controversial study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics,\u00a0claimed that children who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[494,492,493,491,495],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrens-gaming-and-addiction","tag-gaming-and-anxiety","tag-gaming-and-depression-in-kids","tag-video-games","tag-video-games-and-depression"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}