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Brain Biology and Preventing Excessive Video Gaming

Brain Biology and Preventing Excessive Video Gaming

FromThe Screenagers Podcast


Brain Biology and Preventing Excessive Video Gaming

FromThe Screenagers Podcast

ratings:
Length:
18 minutes
Released:
Jul 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Why do some kids and teens get overly frustrated and bored when it’s time to turn off their video games? How to know when game playing has become excessive? What are tips that all families should know for ensuring healthy videogame play? In today’s episode, Physician Delaney Ruston explores these issues along with a new model of brain biology to help explain irritability and boredom associated with video gaming.  We hear from teens along with psychiatrist Dr. Clifford Sussman who specializes in helping young people regain tech balance.  We also hear from Andrew Fulton who was in the film, Screenagers, when he was getting treatment at an internet rehab center, and is now working at the same center helping others recover from videogame overuse.
Released:
Jul 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (33)

Join Delaney Ruston, MD, a leading authority on parenting in the digital age and the filmmaker of the award-winning Screenagers movies, as she explores strategies for raising screen-wise and tech-balanced youth. Through interviews with researchers, thought leaders, and young people themselves, the Screenagers Podcast delivers the latest in science along with practical tips and important insights that parents will want to share with their kids and teens.