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> <channel><title>Play Attention &#187; ADHD: Video Games</title> <atom:link href="http://www.playattention.com/category/adhd-video-games/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.playattention.com</link> <description>Just another WordPress site</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:36:03 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1</generator> <item><title>Texting and ADHD</title><link>http://www.playattention.com/texting-and-adhd/</link> <comments>http://www.playattention.com/texting-and-adhd/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:10:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Children]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Parents]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Research]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: sleep]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Texting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Video Games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: web surfing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[JFK Medical Center]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Medical News Today]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Texting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[web surfing]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://playattention.com/attention-deficit/articles/texting-and-adhd/</guid> <description><![CDATA[How much has information and communication technology (ICT) affected our lives? Researchers say that the average teenager sends a total of over 3,400 electronic [text] messages every month or surfs the Internet at bedtime. Could texting and bedtime web time influence the severity of your child&#8217;s ADHD symptoms? In a study by the JFK Medical [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.playattention.com/texting-and-adhd/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>New research on attention and video games</title><link>http://www.playattention.com/new-research-on-attention-and-video-games/</link> <comments>http://www.playattention.com/new-research-on-attention-and-video-games/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:32:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ADHD]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Children]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Parents]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Research]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Video Games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[American Academy of Pediatrics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Journal Pediatrics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://playattention.com/attention-deficit/articles/new-research-on-attention-and-video-games/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Research published in the July issue of Pediatrics reveals that too much time spent watching television and playing video games can cause attention problems. A graduate student at Iowa State University, Edward Swing, found that excessive screen time, whether in front of a computer or TV, could double the risk of attention problems in children [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.playattention.com/new-research-on-attention-and-video-games/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Summer ADHD brain drain</title><link>http://www.playattention.com/summer-adhd-brain-drain/</link> <comments>http://www.playattention.com/summer-adhd-brain-drain/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 19:55:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ADHD]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Children]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Diet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Medications]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Parents]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Video Games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brain Development]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brain Plasticity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Ratey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Neurogenesis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Neuroplasticity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sleep]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Training the Brain]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://playattention.com/attention-deficit/articles/summer-adhd-brain-drain/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Research tells us that during the summer, the average student loses one to three month’s math and reading gains made over the prior year. Academic losses are so common among students that educators have given the phenomena a name: Summer Brain Drain. Summer Brain Drain may even be worse for ADHD students already having trouble [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.playattention.com/summer-adhd-brain-drain/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Immediate rewards and the ADHD brain</title><link>http://www.playattention.com/immediate-rewards-and-the-adhd-brain/</link> <comments>http://www.playattention.com/immediate-rewards-and-the-adhd-brain/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:04:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ADHD]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Adderall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Children]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Concerta]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Drugs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Medications]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Modafinil]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Neurofeedback]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Research]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Ritalin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Strattera]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Treatment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Video Games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Biofeedback]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brain Development]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brain Plasticity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cognitive Therapy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Training the Brain]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://playattention.com/attention-deficit/articles/immediate-rewards-and-the-adhd-brain/</guid> <description><![CDATA[A Nottingham University research team in the United Kingdom found that the brains of children with ADHD appear to respond to immediate rewards in the same way as they do to medication. Their research was published in the journal Biological Psychiatry. “Our study suggests that both types of intervention [medicine and immediate reward/reinforcement] may have [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.playattention.com/immediate-rewards-and-the-adhd-brain/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Should I play or should I grow?</title><link>http://www.playattention.com/should-i-play-or-should-i-grow-2/</link> <comments>http://www.playattention.com/should-i-play-or-should-i-grow-2/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:19:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ADHD]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Children]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Research]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Video Games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Training the Brain]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://playattention.com/attention-deficit/articles/should-i-play-or-should-i-grow-2/</guid> <description><![CDATA[PART TWO OF THREE Entertainment vs. learning Entertainment is usually a passive act that includes an activity which provides a distraction to everyday events or provides amusement. A good example of entertainment is watching a movie or concert. However, one may also actively participate in recreational entertainment&#160; such as playing video games or sports. One [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.playattention.com/should-i-play-or-should-i-grow-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Should I play or should I grow?</title><link>http://www.playattention.com/should-i-play-or-should-i-grow/</link> <comments>http://www.playattention.com/should-i-play-or-should-i-grow/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:27:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ADHD]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Children]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Parents]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Research]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Video Games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brain Development]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://playattention.com/attention-deficit/articles/should-i-play-or-should-i-grow/</guid> <description><![CDATA[PART ONE OF THREE This blog is partially based on material I presented to the International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations in Vienna, Austria. Playing vs. learning What’s the difference between playing and learning? Sometimes there is no difference. People can learn through play. Educators have known this for years. Grade school teachers [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.playattention.com/should-i-play-or-should-i-grow/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Youth and Video Game Addiction</title><link>http://www.playattention.com/youth-and-video-game-addiction/</link> <comments>http://www.playattention.com/youth-and-video-game-addiction/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:34:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Children]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Video Games]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://playattention.com/attention-deficit2/?p=300</guid> <description><![CDATA[The journal, Psychological Science (May, 2009 Douglas Gentile. Pathological Video Game Use among Youth 8 to 18: A National Study) sampled youth aged 8 to 18. Iowa State University Assistant Professor of Psychology, Douglas Gentile, found that 8.5% of the gamers to be pathological players. Gentile bases his statistics on standards established for pathological gambling. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.playattention.com/youth-and-video-game-addiction/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The War on Video Games and ADHD</title><link>http://www.playattention.com/the-war-on-video-games-and-adhd/</link> <comments>http://www.playattention.com/the-war-on-video-games-and-adhd/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:18:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Children]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Video Games]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://playattention.com/attention-deficit2/?p=281</guid> <description><![CDATA[Recently, national media have declared war on TV, video games, and various other media.&#160; Supported by a study performed by the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”), the news appears gloomy; these various media cause obesity, declining grades, etc.&#160; I’ve even read some press that they may be related to childhood onset of diabetes (related to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.playattention.com/the-war-on-video-games-and-adhd/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>How much improvement can ADHD students make with brainwave-powered video games?</title><link>http://www.playattention.com/how-much-improvement-can-adhd-students-make-with-brainwave-powered-video-games/</link> <comments>http://www.playattention.com/how-much-improvement-can-adhd-students-make-with-brainwave-powered-video-games/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:56:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Children]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Neurofeedback]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Parents]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Treatment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Video Games]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://playattention.com/attention-deficit2/?p=224</guid> <description><![CDATA[From Delta Sky Magazine, November 2007 Attention, not Detention THE DOORBELL RINGS and Stacey Morrison greets the arrival: Bobby, the seventh-grade son of family friends. She offers him an after-school snack, which he declines, and they both head to the small sunroom of the Morrisons’ house in the central New Jersey town of Metuchen. As [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.playattention.com/how-much-improvement-can-adhd-students-make-with-brainwave-powered-video-games/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Technology Showing Promise in Treating Attention and Behavioral Problems in Children &amp; Adults</title><link>http://www.playattention.com/technology-showing-promise-in-treating-attention-and-behavioral-problems-in-children-adults/</link> <comments>http://www.playattention.com/technology-showing-promise-in-treating-attention-and-behavioral-problems-in-children-adults/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2005 23:55:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Children]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Neurofeedback]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Video Games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Biofeedback]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brain Plasticity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Training the Brain]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://playattention.com/attention-deficit2/?p=170</guid> <description><![CDATA[An article from the October 6, 2005 issue of &#160;MONiTOR TODAY!, Ottawa’s Technology Information portal: Technology Showing Promise in Treating Attention and Behavioral Problems in Children&#160;and Adults. Asheville, North Carolina &#8211; It’s a patented technology that is similar to that used by NASA astronauts and U.S. Air Force pilots to stay attentive in the cockpit. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.playattention.com/technology-showing-promise-in-treating-attention-and-behavioral-problems-in-children-adults/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
