It turns out all those times that people told you that videogames and tv were horrible for you and that you should free yourself by reading a book, they were falling into a vague, downward spiraling delusion of false information.
"Tales from George Orwell's 1984 to the movies Network and Videodrome are all about how people are so controlled by television that they'll do anything. Usually, books are presented as an antidote to a TV-controlled populace. But now a new neuroscience study reveals that books control people's minds and emotions in exactly the same way television does."[Link]
I would definitely want to check out this study to see how valid it really is. In the limited amount of neuroscience that I've studied (and yes I have studied a little bit), there's no way that reading a book and watching a movie/tv triggers the same part of the brain. Sounds like maybe it's people who have a vested interest in the support of tv and movies taking a study that just supports their claim. But this is all speculative on my end, of course :-)
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