September 8, 2004

TV and ADHD

This article has an interesting discussion of the relation of childhood television watching to the increase in ADHD cases:

�The study revealed that each hour of television watched per day at ages 1 through 3 increases the risk of attention problems by almost 10 percent at age 7,�...
Plenty of debate in the article.

Of course, putting large numbers of children in prison like settings 7-8 hours per day is bound to cause some of them to get a bit antsy.

Posted by Steve on September 8, 2004
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