All of our recent discussion of the usefulness of videogames is very interesting for me. I spent much of my childhood trying to justify my gaming addiction to my parents whose standard punishment was to ground me from playing my games that they claimed were rotting my brain. Even now, I look back and can’t help thinking of the “more useful” things that I could have spent my time doing. This issue however, may done away with in the near future. Not only are there the various uses for videogames that we have read about and discussed in class, but this article suggests that videogames may even be able to cure ADD. This is an especially interesting claim because of all of the time I have heard people argue that modern technology, especially videogames, are responsible for causing ADD through their quick paced overstimulation that causes people to demand immediate gratification and makes them unable to focus.

http://mentalhealth.about.com/cs/biofeedback/a/videoadd.htm