Noticing that children with anger control problems are often uninterested in psychotherapy, but very eager to play video games, Jason Kahn, PhD, and Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich, MD, at Boston Children's Hospital developed "RAGE Control" to motivate children to practice emotional control skills that they can later use in challenging life situations.
ENGADGET: Researchers create video game that monitors heart rate to keep children's anger in check
Could the lowly proboscis someday lead scientists to create chemicals that might keep anger and violence under control?
They found that teenagers who could control their anger and responded appropriately when angry were more likely to have lower body mass indexes.
Leonard has even learned to control his anger issues, whether that's an effect of the weight loss or his team's continuous support is unclear.
"This tells me there is something more going on psychologically that we need to address, " he says, such as anger or a need for control.
But, he added, nobody taught him how to control his emotions and anger.
Nobody taught us a book on how to control our emotions or our anger.
As attention after Newtown focuses on hot-button issues such as gun control and mental health, children are witnessing anger in response to tragedy.
The NRA, one of the most powerful lobbies in U.S. politics, has made no secret of its anger at Democrats' efforts to enact even modest gun-control laws and said Thursday the TV ads would begin running this weekend and continue through the Democratic convention in Los Angeles next week.
"The connections between the brain's executive control centers and emotional centers are weak in people with severe anger problems, " explains Gonzalez-Heydrich, chief of Psychopharmacology at Boston Children's and senior investigator on the study.
ENGADGET: Researchers create video game that monitors heart rate to keep children's anger in check
The 2012 Presidential electorate should be more ideologically balanced, and the anger of independent voters may not be exclusively be targeted at Democrats now that Republicans control one house of Congress.
When anger is evoked along with anxiety, however, information seeking does not increase relative to an emotion-neutral control, a result at odds with past findings that anxiety motivates attention and interest.
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