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THE EFFECTS OF VIDEO GAMES ON CHILDREN'S BRAIN, BEHAVIOUR AND MOTOR SKILL

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A s the number of people playing games rises, the impact of video games on the human brain becomes a more intriguing research area.      style="display:block; text-align:center;"      data-ad-layout="in-article"      data-ad-format="fluid"      data-ad-client="ca-pub-4280545194065456"      data-ad-slot="3723421236">  Video games are gaining popularity with both children and adults. There is concern among the public that the brutality portrayed on television, as well as within video games, encourages aggressive behavior within its spectators. Based on the thousands of studies and news pieces on the impact of the violent nature of some television, shows, we can assume that violent scenes in video games also aggravate violent behavior. There is a source who calls the research preliminary, but one has only to look at the results of completed research to see that habitual players of brutal games become desens

HOW A MOTHER'S LOVE CHANGES A CHILD'S BRAIN

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N urturing a child early in life may help him or her develop a larger hippocampus, the brain region important for learning, memory and stress responses, a new study shows. Studies in human children, on the other hand, found a connection between early social experiences and the volume of the amygdala, which helps regulate the processing and memory of emotional reactions. Numerous studies also have found that children raised in a nurturing environment typically do better in school and are more emotionally developed than their non-nurtured peers.  Brain images have now revealed that a mother's love physically affects the volume of her child's hippocampus. in the study , children of nurturing mothers had hippocampal volumes 10 percent larger than children whose mothers were not as nurturing. we can now say with confidence that the psycho social environment has a material impact on the way the human brain develops,"said Dr. Joan Luby, The study's lead researcher