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02/19/2008: "Video games are biologically addictive"
A new study finds that when men play the games, a part of the brain involved in feelings of reward and addiction becomes much more activated than it does in women.
[ Hard-wired time wasters, like that 60 hz flicker of TV screens our eyes find hard to ignore. Are we being unwitting and indeliberately mass hypnotized by our machines? ]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/health/19patt.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1203429281-pFDEqhQX2s2GBCDxVUPnRw