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The Gambling, Gaming & Technology Use Community of Interest brings together addiction and mental health service providers, researchers and subject matter experts in the fields of gambling, technology/Internet use and video gaming to collaborate and share knowledge on emerging trends and clinical best practices.

Reply to "Screen time and ADHD"

Thank you for sharing this link, Lisa. I read Leonard Sax's work as a young mom and he helped me to understand what raising healthy boys would look like. My son, Jake was diagnosed with ADHD at age 19 while in mid crisis with a gaming addiction. At the time, I really questioned the diagnosis, as I had him tested when he was much younger and this was not found. As I read Gabor Mate's work in his book, Scattered Minds, I did see that Jake was exhibiting symptoms of ADHD. He was put on a healthy diet, encouraged to exercise, and took a couple naturopathic remedies to treat. And of course, he was detoxed from gaming. As he was recovering and relapsing, the course of treatment we chose was helping Jake to sleep better and to focus. But when Jake eventually committed to quitting gaming entirely, within six months his symptoms disappeared and he no longer needed to take the remedies. In our experience we definitely saw a correlation between excessive gaming and ADHD. I hope this study and future research will help bring us closer to understanding, fully, the neurological changes that gaming can create in the brain.

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