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by Vittorio Hernandez
International Business Times
‘A four-year-old pre-school girl in Britain is undergoing psychiatric therapy for compulsive behaviour because of her addiction to iPad games.
The decision to have their child undergo treatment was made by her parents after they observed her to be inconsolable whenever the Apple tablet was removed from her hands.
[She] had been playing games at an average of four hours daily since she was three. Dr Richard Graham, the attending psychiatrist from London’s Capio Nightingale Clinic, said there is a growing number of young British kids in the same age group who are suffering from device dependence.’
Filed under: Apple, Children, Google, Health, Mobile Phones, Science & Technology, The Brain, The Web
