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I don't know if any of you have got issue 120 (September 2002) of Nintendo Official Magazine (surely one of you must have it), but I was flicking through it yesterday, and noticed the following article:
Games Rot Your Brains:
A study conducted at Nihon University's College of Humanities in Japan has conducted that playing videogames negatively affects your brain's power. Professor Akio Mori surveyed 240 people between the ages of 6 and 29 and discovered that the activity in the brain's prefrontal lobes, the area that governs emotion and creativity, dipped in relation to the time spent playing a game. Those most at risk are people who spent between 2 and 7 hours each day playing games. In these cases the activity in the prefrontal lobes was constantly near zero even when they were doing something other than playing games. "During childhood," says Akio Mori, "playing with friends outside, not videogames, is the best option."
Now, I'm not the kind of guy to ignore "medical research", but doesn't the above article seem a tad strange to you? I mean, if we are to believe the above article, then during, before and after playing games between the ages of 6 and 29, we're going to be mindless, emotion starved zombies.
But I know for a fact that this simply cannot be true. One might even say it's "a load of old cobblers". The reason? Well...I would say that I play videogames for approximately 4 hours a day (more on the weekends); so I'm within the "danger zone" regarding time spent playing games, I am 17; so I'm also within the ages that Akio Mori "surveyed"... however; I still remain as confused and emotionally active as I ever was. Taking into account that I am in fact still a teenager (and let's face it, making teenagers all emotional in one way or another for is easier than winning £100 on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire"), I'm still unaffected by the "brain-sucking videogame" disease.
Also, Akio Mori's statement at the end of the article - "During childhood playing outside with friends, not videogames, is the best option." - couldn't be more wrong. Granted, kids playing outside in the fresh air (especially if you live on a farm! Ooh ar! etc) is obviously going to be good for them... but, if your "neighbourhood" is anything like mine, then you will have noticed it changing and becoming more and more hostile. This happens everywhere (excluding Buckingham Palace... tsk!), but for my entire life (that's 18 years this December), I've lived where I live now, and I've noticed the place and nearby locations turn to shi...pooh. I no longer feel safe to go to some places where I would before, and this is my point about playing videogames. If you're sat inside, enjoying a good game of something with your friends or family, then you're not going to be outside and a prime target for muggings and the like.
I'm sure that you'll all have your own opinions on what I and Akio Mori have said. Thanks for reading.
Games Rot Your Brains:
A study conducted at Nihon University's College of Humanities in Japan has conducted that playing videogames negatively affects your brain's power. Professor Akio Mori surveyed 240 people between the ages of 6 and 29 and discovered that the activity in the brain's prefrontal lobes, the area that governs emotion and creativity, dipped in relation to the time spent playing a game. Those most at risk are people who spent between 2 and 7 hours each day playing games. In these cases the activity in the prefrontal lobes was constantly near zero even when they were doing something other than playing games. "During childhood," says Akio Mori, "playing with friends outside, not videogames, is the best option."
Now, I'm not the kind of guy to ignore "medical research", but doesn't the above article seem a tad strange to you? I mean, if we are to believe the above article, then during, before and after playing games between the ages of 6 and 29, we're going to be mindless, emotion starved zombies.
But I know for a fact that this simply cannot be true. One might even say it's "a load of old cobblers". The reason? Well...I would say that I play videogames for approximately 4 hours a day (more on the weekends); so I'm within the "danger zone" regarding time spent playing games, I am 17; so I'm also within the ages that Akio Mori "surveyed"... however; I still remain as confused and emotionally active as I ever was. Taking into account that I am in fact still a teenager (and let's face it, making teenagers all emotional in one way or another for is easier than winning £100 on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire"), I'm still unaffected by the "brain-sucking videogame" disease.
Also, Akio Mori's statement at the end of the article - "During childhood playing outside with friends, not videogames, is the best option." - couldn't be more wrong. Granted, kids playing outside in the fresh air (especially if you live on a farm! Ooh ar! etc) is obviously going to be good for them... but, if your "neighbourhood" is anything like mine, then you will have noticed it changing and becoming more and more hostile. This happens everywhere (excluding Buckingham Palace... tsk!), but for my entire life (that's 18 years this December), I've lived where I live now, and I've noticed the place and nearby locations turn to shi...pooh. I no longer feel safe to go to some places where I would before, and this is my point about playing videogames. If you're sat inside, enjoying a good game of something with your friends or family, then you're not going to be outside and a prime target for muggings and the like.
I'm sure that you'll all have your own opinions on what I and Akio Mori have said. Thanks for reading.
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Slaveunit wrote:
> I have no emotion, possibly from spending too much time on videogames,
> but more due to life circumstance. It's really not a fun way to be,
> trust me.
*
But, feeling the emotions I feel on a regular basis isn't too much fun either.
> I have no emotion, possibly from spending too much time on videogames,
> but more due to life circumstance. It's really not a fun way to be,
> trust me.
*
But, feeling the emotions I feel on a regular basis isn't too much fun either.
AfroJoe wrote:
> But still, back to something to do with the topic - what's wrong with
> not having any emotion anyway? ;-)
I have no emotion, possibly from spending too much time on videogames, but more due to life circumstance. It's really not a fun way to be, trust me.
> But still, back to something to do with the topic - what's wrong with
> not having any emotion anyway? ;-)
I have no emotion, possibly from spending too much time on videogames, but more due to life circumstance. It's really not a fun way to be, trust me.
All good points, AJ... even the "arrogant" ones. :cDso
I read this too, but it was quite a while ago, and it was in The Herald.
It was a little strange to read, and I couldn't really believe it was true, simply because people have been playing games for years anyway, for more than 2 hours a day, and there seems to be nothing wrong wit them, and even if there is, it doesn't seem to show out very much, does it?
Well, even if this article does express the truth, I can't help but bring out my arrogant side and say "Really, who cares?!". No one plays games for 2 hours, EVERY day, from when they're 6 until they're 29, and I'm sure of that. If you do then you must be one sad, sad person.
But still, back to something to do with the topic - what's wrong with not having any emotion anyway? ;-)
It was a little strange to read, and I couldn't really believe it was true, simply because people have been playing games for years anyway, for more than 2 hours a day, and there seems to be nothing wrong wit them, and even if there is, it doesn't seem to show out very much, does it?
Well, even if this article does express the truth, I can't help but bring out my arrogant side and say "Really, who cares?!". No one plays games for 2 hours, EVERY day, from when they're 6 until they're 29, and I'm sure of that. If you do then you must be one sad, sad person.
But still, back to something to do with the topic - what's wrong with not having any emotion anyway? ;-)
I don't know if any of you have got issue 120 (September 2002) of Nintendo Official Magazine (surely one of you must have it), but I was flicking through it yesterday, and noticed the following article:
Games Rot Your Brains:
A study conducted at Nihon University's College of Humanities in Japan has conducted that playing videogames negatively affects your brain's power. Professor Akio Mori surveyed 240 people between the ages of 6 and 29 and discovered that the activity in the brain's prefrontal lobes, the area that governs emotion and creativity, dipped in relation to the time spent playing a game. Those most at risk are people who spent between 2 and 7 hours each day playing games. In these cases the activity in the prefrontal lobes was constantly near zero even when they were doing something other than playing games. "During childhood," says Akio Mori, "playing with friends outside, not videogames, is the best option."
Now, I'm not the kind of guy to ignore "medical research", but doesn't the above article seem a tad strange to you? I mean, if we are to believe the above article, then during, before and after playing games between the ages of 6 and 29, we're going to be mindless, emotion starved zombies.
But I know for a fact that this simply cannot be true. One might even say it's "a load of old cobblers". The reason? Well...I would say that I play videogames for approximately 4 hours a day (more on the weekends); so I'm within the "danger zone" regarding time spent playing games, I am 17; so I'm also within the ages that Akio Mori "surveyed"... however; I still remain as confused and emotionally active as I ever was. Taking into account that I am in fact still a teenager (and let's face it, making teenagers all emotional in one way or another for is easier than winning £100 on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire"), I'm still unaffected by the "brain-sucking videogame" disease.
Also, Akio Mori's statement at the end of the article - "During childhood playing outside with friends, not videogames, is the best option." - couldn't be more wrong. Granted, kids playing outside in the fresh air (especially if you live on a farm! Ooh ar! etc) is obviously going to be good for them... but, if your "neighbourhood" is anything like mine, then you will have noticed it changing and becoming more and more hostile. This happens everywhere (excluding Buckingham Palace... tsk!), but for my entire life (that's 18 years this December), I've lived where I live now, and I've noticed the place and nearby locations turn to shi...pooh. I no longer feel safe to go to some places where I would before, and this is my point about playing videogames. If you're sat inside, enjoying a good game of something with your friends or family, then you're not going to be outside and a prime target for muggings and the like.
I'm sure that you'll all have your own opinions on what I and Akio Mori have said. Thanks for reading.
Games Rot Your Brains:
A study conducted at Nihon University's College of Humanities in Japan has conducted that playing videogames negatively affects your brain's power. Professor Akio Mori surveyed 240 people between the ages of 6 and 29 and discovered that the activity in the brain's prefrontal lobes, the area that governs emotion and creativity, dipped in relation to the time spent playing a game. Those most at risk are people who spent between 2 and 7 hours each day playing games. In these cases the activity in the prefrontal lobes was constantly near zero even when they were doing something other than playing games. "During childhood," says Akio Mori, "playing with friends outside, not videogames, is the best option."
Now, I'm not the kind of guy to ignore "medical research", but doesn't the above article seem a tad strange to you? I mean, if we are to believe the above article, then during, before and after playing games between the ages of 6 and 29, we're going to be mindless, emotion starved zombies.
But I know for a fact that this simply cannot be true. One might even say it's "a load of old cobblers". The reason? Well...I would say that I play videogames for approximately 4 hours a day (more on the weekends); so I'm within the "danger zone" regarding time spent playing games, I am 17; so I'm also within the ages that Akio Mori "surveyed"... however; I still remain as confused and emotionally active as I ever was. Taking into account that I am in fact still a teenager (and let's face it, making teenagers all emotional in one way or another for is easier than winning £100 on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire"), I'm still unaffected by the "brain-sucking videogame" disease.
Also, Akio Mori's statement at the end of the article - "During childhood playing outside with friends, not videogames, is the best option." - couldn't be more wrong. Granted, kids playing outside in the fresh air (especially if you live on a farm! Ooh ar! etc) is obviously going to be good for them... but, if your "neighbourhood" is anything like mine, then you will have noticed it changing and becoming more and more hostile. This happens everywhere (excluding Buckingham Palace... tsk!), but for my entire life (that's 18 years this December), I've lived where I live now, and I've noticed the place and nearby locations turn to shi...pooh. I no longer feel safe to go to some places where I would before, and this is my point about playing videogames. If you're sat inside, enjoying a good game of something with your friends or family, then you're not going to be outside and a prime target for muggings and the like.
I'm sure that you'll all have your own opinions on what I and Akio Mori have said. Thanks for reading.
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