Saturday, October 23, 2010

Does constant violence desensitize or bore teens?

A new study's peek inside the brain used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to track brain activity as male teens watched and rated violent video clips. Shown here is a screenshot from "Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars."A new brain imaging study suggests that emotional responses to violence appear to diminish in teenage brains exposed to a stream of violent videos. However, some researchers have cautioned that the study does not necessarily tell us anything about what this means for the effect on aggressive behavior among teens.




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Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39748996/ns/technology_and_science-games/

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