Video Games and Television Can Make Depression

Washington - Play games or watch TV for too long can lead to depression. That the results of studies in the United States, published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry.

A few years later, when the participants were an average age of 21 years, 7.4 percent (308 people) had symptoms of depression.

Our quoted by AFP, began in 1995 researchers investigated the influence of the electronic media in about 4000 non-depressed adolescents. Respondents known to spend 5.68 hours a day with electronic media such as television and video games.

The researchers explained that depression may arise because it was so much fun to access the electronic media, the teens rarely do social activities that can prevent depression. In addition, the content available on electronic media can also be depressing.

According to Brian Primack of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine who led the study, they were more exposed to electronic media more prone to depression. The young men are also more at risk of depression than women.

Teens also may be the lack of sleep. And a healthy sleep pattern considered important in a person's emotional and cognitive development.

Meanwhile, Patient Injuries Due to Increased Wii Play,.

The enjoyment of playing Wii turns lead to injury risk. Some doctors report that a growing number of patients who complained of injuries after playing Wii.

Our Quoted from Bostonherald, in England, in a week there were about 10 patients who suffered injuries caused by playing Wii.

Injuries caused by playing Wii is plural found in the United States and other countries. Patients complain of pain in the shoulder, wrist, back, and other parts of the body after playing Wii.

The injury can be caused due to the current remote waving, arms and legs move back and forth. Often when playing Wii people to forget the time and did not stretch to avoid injury.

Nintendo Wii is a video game system where players mimic movements with a hand-held remote, such as game courts. Then the player swinging the remote like a racket during the game.

Dr. Steve Howell, Arthritis and Bone Clinic of North Alabama, said one problem the Wii comes from the absence of resistance. It is different when playing real tennis racket and where heavy blow balls provide resistance.