Are video games truly addictive — or just really, really fun? That question is at the heart of a controversy stirred up at an American Medical Association meeting that began on Saturday. As part of the meeting, the AMA’s Council on Science and Public Health presented a report on the effects and addictive potential of video games, concluding with a recommendation that the AMA “strongly encourage the consideration and inclusion of “Internet/video game addiction” as a formal diagnostic disorder in the upcoming revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.”
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Docs Retreat From ‘Video Game Addiction’ Diagnosis
Posted by: Katherine Noyes June 25, 2007 02:57 PMAre video games truly addictive — or just really, really fun? That question is at the heart of a controversy stirred up at an American Medical Association meeting that began on Saturday. As part of the meeting, the AMA’s Council on Science and Public Health presented a report on the effects and addictive potential of video games, concluding with a recommendation that the AMA “strongly encourage the consideration and inclusion of “Internet/video game addiction” as a formal diagnostic disorder in the upcoming revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.”