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Neuroscience of Video Game Violence – Cells That Fire Together, Wire Together
Every parent who has a child with an obsession or addiction to video games, is “on alert” following the recent family shooting in New Mexico

Profile of a Shooter – School and community intervention and prevention initiatives.
Guns, video games, isolation, and mental illness have all been implicated as causal factors in the recent school shooting by Adam Lanza in Newtown, Connecticut.

Gunner, Gamer or Shooter – Which one can be controlled?
Hearts everywhere go out to families and friends of victims of the mass killing at Sandy Hook School. Bewildered as to why the shooter did
Tech Neglect – Precoccupation with technology results in injury and brain damage to children
A recent study by Dr. Bruce Perry with Child Trauma Academy in Texas revealed that children who are neglected by their parents have significantly smaller

Child Mental Disorders – Illness or Environment?
I was chatting with a mom this week about her son who has a diagnosis of adhd, and was suggesting some environmental interventions that might
Video Games Linked to Attention Problems
A study published in Pediatrics in 2010 found a correlation between the amount of time spent viewing TV and playing video games and subsequent attention problems in

Education Technology Displaces Literacy
This picture of a 3 year old girl in front of a laptop, is found on the home page of BC’s new educational plan advertising

Early Technology Use Limits Imagination
What would happen if you woke up one morning, and it was all gone…cell phone, computer, iPad, TV. A big earthquake wiped out all power,

Children Who Don’t Move, Can’t Learn
In order to achieve optimal physical and mental development, children need to move. Yet as adults have become more and more sedentary with their technologies,