I believe in that playing game doesn’t give our brain bad effect so much.
My favorite hobby is playing games.
I think It’s mainly because of my older brothers.
They really liked to play video games and now I like it too.
But in 2002 a book against games was published.
the name of that book is “the horror of game brain”.
This book was written on the harm of playing games by Akio Mori.
After this book was published many mass media reported bad article about playing games.
This movement made a belief among people,especially parents,that playing game can give our brain bad effects.people thought so on the ground that when you play games your brain’s condition becomes like dementia and playing games can get player more likely to be angry.
Actually, my mother also scolded me when I played games while saying “you will become full because of playing games”
But there are five reasons why his theory is not trustworthy.
First,the author of “the horror of game brain”,Akio Mori is the professor of education and physiology.So he is not professional of brain science or Neurology and he doesn’t have enough knowledge about brain waves.
He critically lacks fundamental knowledge about brain
Second,in that book he says that the brain’s condition while playing video games is similar with one while sleeping.
In other words,it means that sleeping also can give our brain bad influences.
However,as we know sleeping is even really good and necessary for us.
Third,he suggests to exercise for preventing from being game brain.
However,according to data which is cited by himself,a brain wave while playing sports is almost same with one while playing video games.
He nevertheless didn’t mention the sameness.
Fourth,he regards beta wave and alpha wave as a basic standard to find abnormity of brain.
His idea is that overlapping between beta wave and alpha wave was caused by an abnormity of brain
But this idea is denied in terms of clinicians.
And he ignores spike wave and sharp wave which are thought necessary for finding abnormity of brain.
Fifth,as for the the way he measure brain waves,in this method a lot of artifact can be measured.Artifact is phenomenon which happens in measuring brain wave or electro cardiogram and so on.Artifact is not useful at all or even really cumbersome.And numerical values of Artifact and beta wave are similar.So sometimes doctors make a wrong diagnosis because of it.
In some experiments,it turned out that playing games is beneficent.
many people think if you play video game,your eyesight would get worse
but actually in a experiment people who play video games for a long time can see smaller letter than others.people who play video games also good at attention.In a experiment that subjects followed some dots with their eyes people who play games did better.
As a result I think playing games is not harmful but beneficent.
However,of cause,playing games too much is not so good.