Healing ADD: The Breakthrough Program that Allows You to See and Heal the 7 Types of ADD

by Daniel G. Amen

studies have shown that the kids who spend the most time on the Internet have the poorest social skills. Balance and supervision are the biggest keys. I have become more concerned recently about a child’s exposure to how computer and TV screens flash (or refresh themselves). If you look at some computer monitors or television screens through a video camera, you will see black lines quickly roll across the screen. TV and computer screens flash at different speeds, up to thirty flashes or cycles per second. Interestingly, this speed of flashing is similar to a concentration brain state. Your brain gravitates to that rhythm, and you tune in to whatever is drawing your attention—forced focus, so to speak. “Entrainment” is the technical term of this phenomenon: Your brain picks up the rhythm in the environment. So if a light (or TV) flashes at a slow rate, one’s brain picks up the slow rate and that person feels sleepy. If it flashes at a fast rate, you may feel energized or anxious. If your brain picks up a concentration flashing rate, you will focus on the TV or computer screen, even though you may not be at all interested in what’s on it. Have you ever had the experience of watching TV even though you didn’t want to—the feeling of being mesmerized or compelled to watch, even though you were bored with what was on? I have. One example of mass entrainment occurred in late 1997 in Japan. Tens of thousands of Japanese children were watching the top-rated Nintendo cartoon Pokémon...