Effects of video games

I think that in general the brain perceives a video game as real as it wants it to be, of course the brain isn't going to think it could be in the middle of the desert somewhere under fire from an enemy but i think the brain is creating an alter ego. I think that this is the way that the brain looks at video games obviously the more involved you become with a video game the more the bigger the alter ego is going to be. Saying this though there can be times that i have experienced myself where you will subconsciously reference something that you have seen to something from a video game i disagree that it is something that cant be controlled. If you were to do the same studies on an individual who would read books for the same period of time as someone plays video games would the same results not be shown? I think that in relation to BETA waves it has to depend on each individual and how they live there life to see where they would start on BETA level without video games being involved because if people are on a different level and drop by the same amount then surely mixed results would be shown. Whereas if you get people with the same BETA level and they drop the same then aren't the results are going to show the same thing?

I think that people who play video games use it to distress from there everyday life well in general (going by the video on the homepage). I think that anything that we involve ourselves in will/can have a lasting affect on the brain if we involve ourselves in the activity. By that i mean the way that we see whatever activity we are participating in.

In one of the articles when it spoke about the children and Mario kart with the way that the ten year old acted to his younger brother, then the way that the eight year old acted, i think this has allot more to do with just a video game. The only reason i say this is because if a parent is seeing there child act like this then surely they are going to be told off and punished? I know i would of been if i ever acted in that way to my younger sister in general let alone over a computer game. I suppose that when you look at it that way then video games to affect an individual especially if it is unsupervised gaming with actions like this happening. Things like that can have more than an alter ego affect on an individual it could give them behaviours that could be shown throughout their life.