Melissa in the Morning: Gamers Unite

Apr 11, 01:42 PM

A new study suggests that teenagers who spend too much on computers and video games may turn psychotic. A new paper published in JAMA Psychiatry says researchers studied over 12-hundred participants who spent a lot of time online as teenagers and found they were up to seven percent more likely than their peers to have a psychotic experience, such as delusions or hallucinations, before age 23. We did a deeper dive into the specifics of this and highlighting some key points to the study that make it less scary, with Dr. Fred Browne of Griffin Health.

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