NEW YORK: A new study is now warning that this could change the way that children use their brains, leading to mental illnesses such as dementia and depression.
The research found that sustained gaming could lead youngsters to neglect parts of their brains, with devastating results. Scientists monitored the brain activity and eye movements of gamers using state-of-the-art “skull caps” and compared them with those of non-gamers. They found gamers were more likely than non-gamers to use an area of the brain referred to as the “reward system”, rather than the hippocampus, which controls memory, learning and emotion.