Is there an association between video games and aggression?

We found a complex link between playing shoot-em-ups at a young age and adolescent aggression. But it won’t surprise anyone who actually plays video gamesIt was a headline in the Daily Mail that started it. “Computer games leave children with ‘dementia’, warns top neurologist”. It was annoying, because (a) there’s no evidence that games cause dementia in kids, and (b) the top neurologist wasn’t a neurologist. Scaremongering stories about the clear-cut ne