Videogames are great for the brain but no more than half an hour a day

Parents are no longer just concerned about drugs, smoking and alcohol: in January, the World Health Organization decided to include video game addiction in the next revision of the International Classification of Diseases, the ‘official list’ of diseases, scheduled for half Year.

The so-called gaming disorder will fall into the category «disorders due to dependent behavior», the same, for example, of those who bet pathologically.

Even if we still have to study more deeply the phenomenon, given that is only preliminary but not definitive, numbers of the dependence emerge from the research, which would affect between 0.5 and 6% of the population, especially between 12 and 20 Years.

The study does not condemn video games a priori: almost all children and youngsters like to challenge each other or commit to breaking records and overcoming patterns. And there are some scientific studies that hypothesize beneficial effects on attention and learning. The problem is, in fact, the time spent on them.