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Boy Dies of Stroke After Playing Computer Games For 12
Hours Non Stop
Pravda
June 20, 2005
Computer games launched the development of the brain
pathology, which the boy was suffering from, having thus
provoked stroke
A teenager died in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg after
12 hours of playing computer games. The boy died from
stroke after he had spent a half of his day playing games
in a computer club. Doctors were taking lifesaving
efforts for several days, but could not save the boy. The
autopsy showed that the brain of a young gamer was
totally destroyed.
According to the information from the press service of
the city's healthcare administration, the tragedy
occurred last week. The boy stayed in the game club
longer than safety regulations allowed. When the boy
returned home, he showed quite inadequate behavior, which
made his mother call an ambulance. The boy was
hospitalized, stayed in the reanimation department for
seven weeks and died. Doctors concluded that computer
games launched the development of the brain pathology,
which the boy was suffering from, having thus provoked
stroke.
Doctors of the city hospital say that they start
receiving information about computer game addiction
developing among teenagers on a regular basis. According
to sociological research, up to 80 percent of
schoolchildren of 12-13 years of age suffer from
addiction to computers in Russia. Children may spend
whole days sitting in front of computers without food,
water and rest.
Children's addiction to computer games in Western states
gradually takes the scale of alcohol and drug addiction.
Such children are excessively short-tempered, irascible
and emotionally unstable. They always experience a dire
need of playing computer games, although they realize
practical uselessness of such pastime. As a result,
computer addicts suffer from inner contradictions between
the real and the virtual egos.
Doctors say that serious addiction to computer games
negatively affects both physical and intellectual
development of children, causing depressions and
psychological disorders.
http://english.pravda.ru/accid ents/21/96/383/15672_games.htm l
Hours Non Stop
Pravda
June 20, 2005
Computer games launched the development of the brain
pathology, which the boy was suffering from, having thus
provoked stroke
A teenager died in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg after
12 hours of playing computer games. The boy died from
stroke after he had spent a half of his day playing games
in a computer club. Doctors were taking lifesaving
efforts for several days, but could not save the boy. The
autopsy showed that the brain of a young gamer was
totally destroyed.
According to the information from the press service of
the city's healthcare administration, the tragedy
occurred last week. The boy stayed in the game club
longer than safety regulations allowed. When the boy
returned home, he showed quite inadequate behavior, which
made his mother call an ambulance. The boy was
hospitalized, stayed in the reanimation department for
seven weeks and died. Doctors concluded that computer
games launched the development of the brain pathology,
which the boy was suffering from, having thus provoked
stroke.
Doctors of the city hospital say that they start
receiving information about computer game addiction
developing among teenagers on a regular basis. According
to sociological research, up to 80 percent of
schoolchildren of 12-13 years of age suffer from
addiction to computers in Russia. Children may spend
whole days sitting in front of computers without food,
water and rest.
Children's addiction to computer games in Western states
gradually takes the scale of alcohol and drug addiction.
Such children are excessively short-tempered, irascible
and emotionally unstable. They always experience a dire
need of playing computer games, although they realize
practical uselessness of such pastime. As a result,
computer addicts suffer from inner contradictions between
the real and the virtual egos.
Doctors say that serious addiction to computer games
negatively affects both physical and intellectual
development of children, causing depressions and
psychological disorders.
http://english.pravda.ru/accid ents/21/96/383/15672_games.htm l
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