Computers mess with kids' heads
That's the parents' job says neuroscientist
BOFFIN BARONESS Greenfield said more work needs to be done to work out what effect computers are having on children's brains.
The famous neuroscientist told the Beeb that the "sensory-laden environment" of computers could result in people "staying in the world of the small child".
In other words, if you play with computers too long you might end up with Peter Pan syndrome and never grow up.
Obviously stunting children's growth and preventing them developing has been traditionally the role of over protective mothers and this role should not be taken over by a machine.
Professor Greenfield told Radio 4 that the last 10 years have seen a three-fold increase in the prescription of Ritalin, a drug used for Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). She said that the only cause thing she can think of for this is the increased exposure of young children to unsupervised and lengthy hours in front of a screen.
Greenfield said that if a small child is sitting in front of a screen pressing buttons and getting reactions quickly for many hours, their little brains get used to rapid responses.
All sounds incredibly logical, other than the fact that ADD is a relatively new concept in mental illness. Some doctors don’t think it really exists. If there have been more drugs proscribed in the last decade it is because more doctors are starting to believe that it does and are writing more chits. µ
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Ritalin messes with kids' heads...
Hi,I fully agree with your last statement about increased prescriptions of Ritalin and similar drugs to "combat" ADD.
The real reason I see for medicating your kids is this - parents spend less and less time with their kids, and expect them not to react and adjust. Then, when something doesn't go according to plan, it is mitigated by chemistry, not affection or just attention, and since it's ADD and lots of other kids have it, let's feed our kid some Ritalin.
Sad. I've talked about this with quite a few parents who praised Ritalin, only to admit that they have to put their kids on ever increasing doses so the "effect" still works.
Making junkies of our kids is not the way.
That'l Be It
She said that the only cause thing she can think of for this is the increased exposure of young children to unsupervised and lengthy hours in front of a screen.Couldn't possibly be anything else.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Alas, I don't think enough of these drugs have been proscribed, at least for this condition. Most of them have been over _prescribed_.MSG
have none of you ever heard of Monosodium Glutamate! AKA MSG. It was discoverd by the japanese in the 50's during world war 2 and our soldiers like there rations better because of it. After the war we started putting msg in everything now manufactures will go to the point of renaming it to keep it in poducts, * Food Additives that ALWAYS contain MSG *Monosodium Glutamate
Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein
Hydrolyzed Protein
Hydrolyzed Plant Protein
Plant Protein Extract
Sodium Caseinate
Calcium Caseinate
Yeast Extract
Textured Protein (Including TVP)
Autolyzed Yeast
Hydrolyzed Oat Flour
Corn Oil
MSG Side effects are known to cause
Diabetes, Migraines and headaches, Autism, ADHD and even Alzheimer's.
They use it to fatten up mice ( there is no known fat mice strand) If they inject to much at once it will give the animals a brain lesion!
about half of the animals they have tested are immune to its effects (like apes/monkey's which big companies pay off testing companies to use).the other percentage which humans are not so lucky to be in.
I have ADD and dropped out of school becasue i couldn't concentrate. Yet i stayed up all night on my computer becasue it was the one thing i could concentrate on wiht no one else there. I've since taken MSG out of my system by eating nothing but sandwiches and drinking ozarka water everyday. I hate it because of all of things i miss. But now i can concentrate and is well worth it . I've since went back to school graduated and made a 4.0 at the trade school in Monroe, LA (industrial electronics). No one that i know would even consider me to have add now.
I't saddens me that people blame something they know nothing of. Msg has been linked to cancer and obesity. Anything that is uesd to force the nuerons in your head to think something is good (excitotoxins) must have side effects right. well they do. Trust me don't flame my post untill you spend 5 minutes looking up MSG Side effects or just plain ole MSG adhd peace out!
R&R - Reality vs Relativity
Whilst we [think we] know what reality is, few comprehend relativity other than some scientific theory – or those pesky blood kin who always appear when least expected. Reality is not what we imagined or fantasised [obviously], and for the most part, it is seldom what we’ve experienced either. “What the hell RU jabbering about now …” A 100-year old tortoise might perceive it’s waterhole as all there is, but when viewed from a more comprehensive position, we can see bigger & better waterholes surrounding it. Like when you rise above the horizon, you might finally realise that The Earth actually revolves around The Sun. … unlike those medieval hallelujahs. Time to retrieve one’s brain from the deep freezer.As such, a dog might have a highly acute sense of smell but it has no perception of filth nor beauty [and a dog’s duty is to e loyal and not to “absorb” it’s owners’ problems and develop {the 3} mental illnesses of sorts. Afterall, indulgence is emotional cruelty and physical cruelty is well understood but intellectual cruelty? Howszat for animal rights eh, spoiling/damaging your “loved one”? Imagine, a dog developing diabetes, an intellectual illness ... yes duckie, eet’s true but don’t bank on quackery “discovering” it soon, bank on them inventing expensive addictions to keep them propped-up on your mantle and casting heresy at reality {which is NOT those miraculously expensive “alternatives”} … whilst not forgetting truth/love costs nothing].
So, without “rising over the horizon” towards Reality, our reality is merely relativity and to become that position is not a matter of science [not believing “until I see it”] nor religion [“I want to believe it so I believe it”], it is matter of “how to become”. As we all know too well, there are 2 lobes to the brain so how come there is only one “mind”? The joke is that quackery sees the brain as a lump of matter that conducts electricity with chemicals reacting in an unfathomable convolution and by merely saying so, they are on their way towards immortality whilst not forgetting that immortality relates to worship and £100+++k/annum + weekends off is “jest not enough”.
Like the doggie example above showing that the higher senses is more than physical, you have to “become” in order that you may perceive Reality as it should be and we are not talking about gourmet cooking and “fine, sophisticated” alcoholic slurps and much more. Reality is therefore more than who you really are [should we get to this position first]. Reality is where you need to go assuming you know where/what it is. There is no way for a non-thinking entity to develop an understanding of arithmetic [forget about maths] and there is no way for those who dwell within their relativities to realise Reality. One is of the heart-brain whilst the oither is about our 3 minds. Without realising that humans have 3 minds, we won’t be able to realise what our minds are and the damage [their true position for existing] they are doing to us.
The minds are realms of devolution whereas to “ascend” towards the heart-brain is evolution. The centre of a human is his solar-plexus/stomach-area and the stomach represents our satisfaction. The solar plexus has 10 sub-plexuses which represents our true/real religion as alluded to by Moses through the 10 commandments. Religion is not something you read, memorise and then cast aspersion onto others, the past-time of nutters. When we intellectualise [as opposed to being intelligent] or emote [as in abandonment/licentiousness], we are in fetishsm and “descend” towards our excretory-area and our excretory area is also represented by our heel. When a human sits on his heels, where his heels contact his body, that area is the “gate to hell”. In the Iliad, Achilles was brought down through his heel, his licentiousness and those lovely high-heels takes you away from your grounding. Intellect cannot ascend because intellect is fetishsm.
If Reality exists and He reveals Himself, what will people do? We will seek refuge in our minds, a case of Truth not being able to reveal Himself until we are truly human/intelligent/loving/satisfied. All these what-if’s about electronic games, mobile phone radiation, gun-fetishsm, and more, are intellectual activities, not intelligent ones. Simil;arly, sympathies and conditionings about tree-stumps, animals-rights [a case of the truly dumb insisting that it is intelligence/love if an example is required], saving The Earth [as if Mother Earth is a mere lump of rock much like the religious nuts putting God in their pockets waiting to be retrieved – the joke is that the so-called religious are actually not afraid of their god contrary to their profession] and much more, are abandonments, not compassion for compassion is not one-sided. Only those who can create energy can afford to be one-sided for He/She is The Source/can-never-make-a-mistake whereas energy transformers must utilise what’s given to them in a very balanced manner or else there will only be accumulations, not throughput and throughput, as we all know too well, is what we are really after. Only an idiot or a lunatic is after accumulation. How so? Because they ARE accumulations.
Nonsense
It is so teacher's have an easier time with the energetic boys. How more obvious can it get? Maybe they should look at what kind of damage Ritalin does to the young brain...Are not for kids
Games are not for kids. I have been playing games online since the mid 80's and I have learned over all thoughs years that computer games are not for kids. My kids use their computers as a tool for homework, research or just information intake but never games. If they want to play they need to go out into the real world with real people. Today these parents are using computers as babysitters which I find very sad.Go read what the Lancet found about ADHD
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673607613063/abstractSo yes, it's real, and there are things you can do to make it worse. Soda is the absolute worst since it has all of the chemicals the Lancet warns against and then some.
same as it ever was
more drugs are being prescribed because the pharmaceutical industry keeps greasing the right people.anti-depressants and anti-axiety meds are also on the rise exponentially
were at 20+/100 on some kind of these meds, yet no one askes WTF we are doing wrong that so many people apparently need to take em
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