Yahoo! News has an article on a recent study that suggests video games cut into children's reading and study time. This is no great shock, since simple math says that if someone is doing one thing, they're not doing the other. However, it is interesting to note that socially they found no difference in the level of involvement of heavy gamers vs. non-gamers.

"Gamers did spend less time reading and doing homework. But they didn't spend less time interacting with their parents or their friends, nor did they spend less time in sports or active leisure activities," said Hope Cummings of the University of Michigan, whose study appears in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

The study comes as U.S. doctors voice growing concern about the long-term effects of video games.

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