The FINANCIAL — “The real-life activities and relationships that a person must experience and go through have now largely shifted to the virtual world. Children are increasingly unable to express ...

Time spent watching television or playing computer games has measurable and long-term effects on children's brain function, according to a review of 23 years of neuroimaging research, which while ...

CU Boulder scientists find that playing video games comes with small but significant cognitive benefits Ever since video games began to gain widespread popularity, some have questioned how playing ...

A boy playing a video game on a PC at home. Recent research suggests that video games might be harming boys. But debates about children and games miss the fact that not all games are the same. Parents ...

Blaming video games for violence saves Americans from having to grapple with deeper, harder to solve societal problems.

Video games can get a bad rap when it comes to kids and mental health, but their impact on child development is often misunderstood. Gaming can be a powerful training tool for a variety of skills. If ...

Video games have occasionally served as a convenient scapegoat for whatever ails youth. But just this week, the normal trickle of blame has become a torrent, with loud proclamations from many quarters ...

The inspiration to write this article came from my recent experience of working a shift in a child and adolescent psychiatric unit for children under 10 years old. I observed firsthand how a child’s ...

Quite a few parents have asked me, at talks I've given, about the advisability of their limiting their kids' computer play. Others have told me that they do limit their kids' computer play, or their ...