Video games and aggression: a complex relationship

Our new study on the associations between playing shoot-em-ups at a young age and aggression in adolescence highlights a complex link, surprising no one that 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 storie