March 07, 2006

TV & attention spans?

The New York Times reports today that "In the last two years, two ... studies have failed to find any link between television exposure and symptoms of attention-deficit disorder. The most recent, published this month in the journal Pediatrics, based its findings on a group of 5,000 American kindergartners who were followed for two years."

Read more: PEDIATRICS Vol. 117 No. 3 March 2006, pp. 665-672 (doi:10.1542/peds.2005-0863)
There Is No Meaningful Relationship Between Television Exposure and Symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

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