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A new controversial study supported the idea that video games are harming the kids’ minds. The 2-year research that polled over 3,000 school children in Singapore says that nearly one in ten were video game "addicts," and most were stuck with the problem.

While these kids were more likely to have behavioral problems to begin with, excessive gaming appeared to cause additional mental woes.

According to the new study conducted by professors Jacob Vigdor and Helen Ladd of the Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy in North Carolina, giving children home computers and Internet access in a move to contract the gap between poor and wealthy in what relates to education and intellectual abilities leads to the opposite results. The researchers think that these efforts widen achievement gaps in maths and reading between rich and poor - and causes an overall skills decline across society to boot.