F inding a needle in a haystack would be easier than finding an adolescent male who hasn’t seen online porn. Surveys indicate the average boy watches roughly two hours of porn every week with porn viewing becoming common by age 15. The most popular porn site—PornHub—reported that the average Millennial porn session lasts 9 minutes, […]
Pantic, Igor, Anita Milanovic, Barbara Loboda, Agata Błachnio, Aneta Przepiórka, Dejan Nesic, Sanja Mazic, Stefan Dugalic, and Sinisa Ristic. Psychiatry Research (2017). Highlights We tested the relationship between Internet addiction, self-esteem and narcissism. On a sample of 244 students, we also investigated social networking activities. Significant negative correlation between internet addiction score and self-esteem. There […]
J Behav Addict. 2017 Aug 17:1-3. doi: 10.1556/2006.6.2017.049. Higuchi S1, Nakayama H1, Mihara S1, Maezono M1, Kitayuguchi T1, Hashimoto T1. ABSTRACT Data from a specialist treatment facility for Internet addiction (IA) in Japan showed that (a) the vast majority of treatment seekers are addicted to online games, (b) their symptoms are often quite severe, and […]
J Behav Addict. 2017 Aug 17:1-9. doi: 10.1556/2006.6.2017.039. Saunders JB1, Hao W2, Long J2, King DL3, Mann K4, Fauth-Bühler M4, Rumpf HJ5, Bowden-Jones H6, Rahimi-Movaghar A7, Chung T8, Chan E9, Bahar N10, Achab S11, Lee HK12, Potenza M13, Petry N14, Spritzer D15, Ambekar A16, Derevensky J17, Griffiths MD18, Pontes HM18, Kuss D18, Higuchi S19, Mihara […]
J Behav Addict. 2017 Aug 17:1-6. doi: 10.1556/2006.6.2017.037. Griffiths MD1, Kuss DJ1, Lopez-Fernandez O1, Pontes HM. Abstract Background The recent paper by Aarseth et al. (2016) questioned whether problematic gaming should be considered a new disorder particularly because “Gaming Disorder” (GD) has been identified as a disorder to be included in the next (11th) revision of […]
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Commentary on: Scholars’ open debate paper on the World Health Organization ICD-11 Gaming Disorder proposal (Aarseth et al.) BillieuxJoëlRelated information 1Institute for Health and Behaviour, Integrative Research Unit on Social and Individual Development (INSIDE), University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg 2Internet and Gambling Disorders Clinic, Department of Adult Psychiatry, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium 3Laboratory for […]
Commentary on “Scholars’ open debate paper on the World Health Organization ICD-11 Gaming Disorder proposal” J Behav Addict. 2017 Aug 17:1-4. doi: 10.1556/2006.6.2017.047. Lee SY1, Choo H2, Lee HK1. Abstract The inclusion of Gaming Disorder (GD) criteria in the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) beta draft was recently criticized, and an […]
COMMENTS: Study strongly suggests that internet addiction can cause ADHD like symptoms (rather than ADHD leading to internet addiction). J Behav Addict. 2017 Aug 8:1-9. doi: 10.1556/2006.6.2017.044. Kim D1,2, Lee D1,2, Lee J1,2, Namkoong K1,2, Jung YC1,2. Abstract Background and aims Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common psychiatric comorbidities of […]
BMC Neurosci. 2017; 18: 54. Published online 2017 Jul 27. doi: 10.1186/s12868-017-0375-y PMCID: PMC5530585 Xin Ge,#1 Yawen Sun,#1 Xu Han,1 Yao Wang,1 Weina Ding,1 Mengqiu Cao,1 Yasong Du,2 Jianrong Xu,1 and Yan Zhou1 Abstract Background It has been reported that internet gaming disorder (IGD) and smokers with nicotine dependence (SND) share clinical characteristics, such as […]
Front Psychol. 2017; 8: 1150. Published online 2017 Jul 11. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01150 PMCID: PMC5504237 Lingxiao Wang,1,2,3 Lingdan Wu,4 Yifan Wang,1 Hui Li,1 Xiaoyue Liu,1 Xiaoxia Du,5 and Guangheng Dong1,6,* Abstract Although the neural substrates of cue reactivity in Internet gaming disorder (IGD) have been examined in previous studies, most of these studies focused on the […]