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Friday, October 30, 2009
Which came first, video game addiction or ADD? - Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, CNet news.cnet.com
A new study out of Iowa State University finds that people who play video games for 40-plus hours a week have a harder time focusing on certain tasks than those who play just a few hours a week. Published in the latest issue of the journal Psychophysiology, the study also supports research published earlier this year that found a positive correlation between video game addiction and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Researchers collected data from 51 Iowa State undergrads ages 18 to 33, about half of whom reported playing less than a couple hours of video games a week, and about half of whom reported playing an average of 43 hours a week.
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At 53, I am older than most video games, yet struggled for years in school with was then not known as ADD. Turst me, ADD came first for some of us!
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