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Comments; From 2007. High levels of cell phone and Internet correlates with depression, anxiety, and sleep problems. Sara Thomée  Mats Eklöf, Ewa Gustafsson, Ralph Nilsson, Mats Hagberg Computers in Human Behavior Volume 23, Issue 3, May 2007, Pages 1300–1321 Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy and University Hospital, Box 414, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2004.12.007,  […]

Read More… from Prevalence of perceived stress symptoms of depression and sleep disturbances in relation to information and communication technology ICT use among young adults an explorative prospective study (2007)

J Marital Fam Ther. 2008 Oct;34(4):431-44. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2008.00086.x. PDF – FULL STUDY   Delmonico DL, Griffin EJ. Source Duquesne University, School of Education, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania 15236, USA. [email protected] Abstract Adolescents who use the Internet regularly (the “e-teen”) present a new set of challenges for marriage and family therapists. This article introduces marriage and family therapists […]

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BMC Neurosci. 2012 Oct 29;13:130. doi: 10.1186/1471-2202-13-130.   Ozburn AR, Mayfield RD, Ponomarev I, Jones TA, Blednov YA, Harris RA. Source Waggoner Center for Alcoholism and Addiction Research, Institute for Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA. [email protected]. Abstract ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The inability to reduce or regulate alcohol intake is a hallmark […]

Read More… from Chronic self-administration of alcohol results in elevated ΔFosB: comparison of hybrid mice with distinct drinking patterns (2012)

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS, New York Times Anyone whose resolve to exercise in 2013 is a bit shaky might want to consider an emerging scientific view of human evolution. It suggests that we are clever today in part because a million years ago, we could outrun and outwalk most other mammals over long distances. Our brains […]

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J Neurosci. 2002 Nov 1;22(21):9155-9.   Ehrlich ME, Sommer J, Canas E, Unterwald EM. Source The Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, New York, 10962, USA. [email protected] Abstract Children and adolescents are increasingly exposed to psychostimulants, either illicitly or for the treatment of common neuropsychiatric conditions, such as attention deficit disorder with and without hyperactivity. Despite the […]

Read More… from Periadolescent Mice Show Enhanced ΔFosB Upregulation in Response to Cocaine and Amphetamine (2002)

Experience, not childhood or genes, configures individual reward-circuit wiring “Intriguingly, the pleasure centre and the behaviour it guides are sculpted mostly by life experiences rather than by our genes. This challenges previous assumptions that dopamine function could be straightforwardly inherited.” —Paul Stokes, MD, PhD Our reward center (or circuitry) is shaped primarily by experience. This […]

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COMMENTS: Note the Internet addiction percentages for The Netherlands or Norway – from 1-5%. For hong Kong it was 17%, for Korea it was 30% for ages 10-30, and higher for males 10-19. Why the huge discrepancies? The European countries used phone surveys heavily skewed to adults, and elderly that never use the internet. Psychiatry […]

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Hum Brain Mapp. 2010 June; 31(6): 926–933. Published online 2010 May 3. doi:  10.1002/hbm.21052 PMCID: PMC3410522 Sarah-Jayne Blakemore,1,* Stephanie Burnett,1,2 and Ronald E Dahl3 Abstract Adolescence refers to the period of physical and psychological development between childhood and adulthood. The beginning of adolescence is loosely anchored to the onset of puberty, which brings dramatic alterations […]

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