In 2007 Frederick Zimmerman and Dimitri...

In 2007 Frederick Zimmerman and Dimitri Christakis confirmed that educational television watching in children over the age of two did not worsen attention problems, but both nonviolent and violent theatrical programming did. The primary issue is neural developmental. Overstimulation of the limbic system by theatrical entertainment—while decreasing the usage of the prefrontal cortex during the developmental years—results in children growing up with brains out of balance.