Susan Greenfield's Dopamine Disaster. It's Susan Greenfield again. Continuing her campaign warning of the dangers of modern technology in terms of their effects on the vulnerable brains of the young, the British neuroscientist and Baroness has written another article. This is the latest of many. None of them have been in peer reviewed academic journals.
This one's behind the Great Times Paywall so I can't link to it, but it's called Are video games taking away our identities? The first part of the article is hard to argue against. Either you'll agree with it or you won't. Screen images do not depend for their impact on seeing one thing in terms of anything else. Greenfield then moves into discussing the brain, and this is where the science comes in. There is one alarm bell ringing, which suggests that increasing 2D screen existence may be having undesirable effects: it is the threefold increase over the past decade in prescriptions for drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. ... Com: A complete guide to ADD, ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) in adulthood and the documentary ADD & Loving It?! AADD-UK. Soasadd.
ADHD rings such a bell with me, says Rory Bremner. 23 May 2011Last updated at 01:56 Rory Bremner says he was "scatty" as a child Comedian Rory Bremner has found success in his ability to switch between impersonating many different people. But behind this comic persona is a man who struggles to focus, loses the thread and takes on too many tasks that can leave his personal and professional life in disarray.
Bremner had always put his chaotic lifestyle down to his personality. However, after a young relation was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, a few years ago, Bremner decided to investigate if he too could have the condition. In a BBC Radio 4 documentary, ADHD and Me, he says: "When I think back to my childhood it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. "My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But his problems started much earlier, at just 18 months old, when he was found trying to get into cars in his street.
School misbehaviour. ADDSTUDY.ORG (ADHD)