A Case of Playstation Twitch
Doctor Bans Boy From Playstation To Stop Head Twitching
A 9-year-old boy in California who suffered from uncontrollable head jerking movements after long hours of video game playing stopped the twitching after his doctor banned him from playing PlayStation, according to a report.
Actually, I get the same thing from reading too many blogs. :-)
Nicholas Lavin said that he played PlayStation constantly over the holidays at his home in San Diego and began to notice that his head would jerk back and forth.
“All the head jerking is gone and his eyes are completely back to normal,” Barbara Lavin said. “I think it’s a direct connection to the PlayStation and the amount of time he spent on it.”
Posted: January 15th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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Comment from brettdl
Time: January 16, 2006, 12:36 am
Oh my goodness.
Comment from J.W. Koebel
Time: February 12, 2007, 2:22 am
It’s not a PlayStation problem, it’s a problem caused by the brain not being wired to be able to deal with the environmental situation he’d placed himself in. My limited training in this area leads me to believe that it was some kind of seizure. In Korea and other Southeast Asian locations, you may be familiar with people falling over dead after playing World of Warcraft for too long, in low-light conditions with little nutrition.
They then ate, went outside, and moved around. And the combination of a massive change in scene causing intense firing in various areas of the brain, many orders of magnitude higher than previously experienced, along with ion-channel disruption from poor nutrition, resulted in fatal seizures.
Any parent who can’t stop a 9-year-old from playing a videogame “constantly” isn’t doing their job right.
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