Computer games stunt teen brains

August 19, 2001
Source: The Observer
Original story - link verified on August 19, 2001

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.