J Ment Health. 2017 Jan 28:1-6. doi: 10.1080/09638237.2016.1276530. Lee YS1, Son JH1, Park JH1, Kim SM1, Kee BS1, Han DH1. Abstract BACKGROUND: The differences in prevalence, natural history, and disease progression between Internet gaming disorder (IGD) and substance use disorder contribute to the controversy over IGD as a diagnosis under substance-related and addictive disorders. AIMS: […]
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Front. Psychiatry, 13 January 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00002 Udi E. Ghitza* National Institute on Drug Abuse Center for Clinical Trials Network, Bethesda, MD, USA A commentary on Addictions neuroclinical assessment: a neuroscience-based framework for addictive disorders by Kwako LE, Momenan R, Litten RZ, Koob GF, Goldman D. Biol Psychiatry (2016) 80:179–89. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.10.024 Kwako et al. recently […]
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Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging (2017). Guangheng Dong, Lingxiao Wang, Xiaoxia Du, Marc N. Potenza DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.01.002 Abstract Background Internet gaming disorder (IGD) has been proposed as a behavioral addiction warranting additional investigation. Craving is considered a core component of addictions. However, few studies to date have investigated craving in IGD. In the current […]
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Gary Wilson raised the question with his book Your Brain on Porn about the harmful effects of porn in the internet age. A former physiology teacher who stumbled upon this research and who donates all the profits of his book YBOP to charity. With Utah legislature attempting to pass legislation that will allow individuals to […]
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Psychiatry Investig. 2017 Jan; 14(1): 21–29. Published online 2016 Dec 29. doi: 10.4306/pi.2017.14.1.21 PMCID: PMC5240456 Hoon Jung Koo,1 Doug Hyun Han,2 Sung-Yong Park,2 and Jung-Hye Kwon3 Abstract Objective This study aimed to develop and validate a Structured Clinical Interview for Internet Gaming Disorder (SCI-IGD) in adolescents. Methods First, we generated preliminary items of the SCI-IGD […]
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Biol Psychiatry. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 May 1. Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry. 2013 May 1; 73(9): 877–886. Published online 2013 Feb 23. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.01.014 PMCID: PMC3686098 NIHMSID: NIHMS466498 Iris M. Balodis, Hedy Kober, Patrick D. Worhunsky, Marney A. White, Michael C. Stevens, Godfrey D. Pearlson, Rajita Sinha, Carlos M. […]
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Men as young as 20 have erectile dysfunction, desensitised by their use of porn, which can easily become an addiction, says Gwen Loughman THE dark side of the internet is pornography. “Pornography has become very much an epidemic in our society,” says Nuala Deering, relationship and psychosexual therapist with Relationships Ireland. “We are not addressing it […]
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017. Link to article Men as young as 20 have erectile dysfunction, desensitised by their use of porn, which can easily become an addiction, says Gwen Loughman THE dark side of the internet is pornography. “Pornography has become very much an epidemic in our society,” says Nuala Deering, relationship and psychosexual therapist with […]
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January 12, 2017 Teenagers who play video games for more than four hours a day suffer from symptoms of depression, but frequent use of social media and instant messaging may mitigate symptoms of game addiction in these teens, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health-led research suggests. The findings, scheduled for publication in the […]
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