Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Computer Use and Depression What does sittting in front of a computer do to you? Make you more isolated? Less? How about your mood. More happy? Or more depressed? One of the Christmas gifts I gave my mom this year was a 21" monitor, because she spends a fair amount of time online. She even made the big leap to DSL this year. So, I was happy to come across a small study of 206 senior citizens (mean age of 80) that suggested that those who were computer savy showed "significantly" fewer signs of depression. Email, health sites, chat rooms were all popular among those studied. It did not matter how long the person was on the computer, either. 9:38:14 PM    comment []

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