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Explain How Video Games Affect The Brain

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How Video Games Affect the Brain
Arronice Hathaway
Daymar College

Today I will be writing about how video games affect the brain. Let me start by saying that I don’t personally feel like the affect the brain at all. I feel like people say this to get away with murder instead of suffering the consequences of their actions. People in the world have lost their mind and I personally feel like people will say anything to be free and blame everyone but themselves for their own actions. After doing research it looks like there are a lot of people that believe that videos games have a positive and negative influence on people. They have long term and short-term influences on a person depending on the age and game. Now I did not specifically …show more content…

But I think it’s all based on how you retain the information that you take in we are all taught differently and brought u in different homes. A home that has love and care in it won’t be affected by a video game due to the fact that the family will show them the real meaning of love if the video game has death or not.

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Dr. Mercola. (2017, July 27). How Video Games Affect Your Brain. Retrieved from https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/07/27/how-video-games-affect-your-brain.aspx
Fletcher, L. (2015, October 15). 14 Mass Murders Linked to Violent Video Games. Retrieved from https://www.charismanews.com/culture/52651-14-mass-murders-linked-to-violent-video-games
Frontiers. (2017, June 22). Video games can change your brain: Studies investigating how playing video games can affect the brain have shown that they can cause changes in many brain regions. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170622103824.htm
Gentle, D. (2009, July 23). Video Games Affect the Brain—for Better and Worse. Retrieved from http://www.dana.org/Cerebrum/2009/Video_Games_Affect_the_Brain%E2%80%94for_Better_and_Worse/
Nichols, H. (2017, July 10). How video games affect the brain. Retrieved from

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