Exposed to media violence!

 when boys are exposed to media violence, it becomes stored in the brain in a manner similar to post traumatic stress disorder memories. Another study by Dr. Craig A. Anderson involving media violence exposure in youth, found that even short term viewing of violence can increase physical and verbal aggression, aggressive thoughts, and aggressive emotions. In fact, according to Anderson, frequent exposure to media violence in childhood can lead to aggressive behavior later in life, including physical and spousal abuse.

This research on violent viewing and its effects on children have surprisingly uncovered that chemicals, such as cortisol — that change the architecture of the brain, including impulse control — are doing so because children’s brains are actually imitating the violence that they are seeing. In a sense the mind is rehearsing and imitating the aggressive behavior viewed. As a result, aggressive behavior and aggressive responses become an acceptable option later on when children are confronted with conflict. Dr. Murray calls this brain behavior “encoding aggressive scripts,” and states that the posterior cingulate, a part of the brain that holds emotional trauma, stores these neural images and retrieves them in a manner similar to the flashbacks of traumatic memory, present in post-traumatic stress disorder. And, excessive viewing of video games also impacts brain function in a similar manner.