The Effect of Violent Video Games on the Brain

Scaffhausen, Joanna. "Violent Video Games' Effect on the Teen Brain" abc.com. 29 November 2006.

At a meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, Indiana University School of Medicine researchers told 44 teenagers to play either a violent or non-violent video game for 30 minutes. Afterward, they used a MRI to study the kids' brains while they performed different tasks. The results showed increased activity in the region of the brain that controls emotional arousal, as well as decreased activity in the self-control area of the brain in the teens who had been playing the violent game.

I think that video games, especially violent ones, have a negative effect on the brain of teenagers that play them. Studies have been done to show that a male teen had a higher level of impatience and violent tendencies after playing a violent video games for a half hour than before he started. So just think, all these young teenagers playing video games that are grotesquely violent for up to 5 hours a day, to what level does this effect have on them? And they are our future leaders? I'm scared to think of what is going to happen.