Children should "feel the grass under their feet" rather than play addictive computer games which can harm their mental development, a leading scientist has said. Baroness Greenfield, the former director of the Royal Institution, said spending too much time staring at computer screens can cause physical changes in the brain that lead to attention and behaviour problems. Technology that plays strongly on the senses - like video games - can literally "blow the mind" by temporarily or permanently deactivating certain nerve connections in the brain, the Baroness said. She told the Daily Telegraph last night: "The human brain has evolved to adapt to the environment. It therefore follows that if the environment is changing, it will have an impact on your brain."If you play computer games to the exclusion of other things this will create a new environment that will have new effects ... every hour you spend in front of a screen is an hour not spent climbing a tree or giving someone a hug."...
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