Teen psychosis risk may be linked to computer and video game use

Kids playing too many video games and spending too much time online has long concerned parents, but new research has found that these activities may be associated with psychotic experiences. Teenagers who spend a lot of time playing video games and on the computer are more likely to have a psychotic experience, according to a new paper in the journal JAMA Psychiatry. These psychotic experiences ranged in extremity from mild suspiciousness and bizarre ideas to delusions and hallucinations. The researchers studied a cohort of 1,226 participants born between 1997 and...