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elchrist
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 Posted: 04 Nov 2003 01:40 PM Post subject: Study Shows Video Games Are Addictive |
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Video Games Are Addictive - Scientists
Source: Reuters via Yahoo! News
Some evidence exists that games stimulate the same areas in the brain as alcohol and other drugs, psychologists, sociologists and others were told at the world's first interdisciplinary games conference here.
But unlike the addictive substances, there is no medicine to deal with compulsive gaming behavior, they heard.
I am not addicted to gaming. |
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Mars
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| Posted: 04 Nov 2003 01:42 PM Post subject: Re: Study Shows Video Games Are Addictive |
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| elchrist wrote: |
I am not addicted to gaming. |
And I am not addicted to alcohol. |
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Americano
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| Posted: 04 Nov 2003 09:55 PM Post subject: Re: Study Shows Video Games Are Addictive |
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| Mars wrote: | | elchrist wrote: |
I am not addicted to gaming. |
And I am not addicted to alcohol. |
And I am not addicted to porno. |
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elchrist
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| Posted: 05 Nov 2003 11:11 AM Post subject: Nintendoitis |
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Now they're saying you can get hurt while gaming.
Physical perils of gaming
Source: BBC News
The extreme version of the effect on tendons is similar to tennis elbow. It is called tendonitis, or in more sensationalist terms, Nintendoitis and is a form of RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury).
Another alleged problem for gamers is over-development of muscles in the arm, shoulder and neck on one side of the body. |
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verbal
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| Posted: 20 Nov 2003 03:51 PM Post subject: Re: Study Shows Video Games Are Addictive |
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| Ame-ricano wrote: | | Mars wrote: | | elchrist wrote: |
I am not addicted to gaming. |
And I am not addicted to alcohol. |
And I am not addicted to porno. |
Ans I am not addicted to smoking. |
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