Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2016, 13(3), 294; doi:10.3390/ijerph13030294 Tony Durkee 1,*, Vladimir Carli 1, Birgitta Floderus 2, Camilla Wasserman 3,4, Marco Sarchiapone 3,5, Alan Apter 6, Judit A. Balazs 7,8, Julio Bobes 9, Romuald Brunner 10, Paul Corcoran 11, Doina Cosman 12, Christian Haring 13, Christina W. Hoven 4,14, Michael Kaess 10, Jean-Pierre […]
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Psychol Addict Behav. 2016 Mar;30(2):252-262. Schou Andreassen C1, Billieux J2, Griffiths MD3, Kuss DJ3, Demetrovics Z4, Mazzoni E5, Pallesen S1. Abstract Over the last decade, research into “addictive technological behaviors” has substantially increased. Research has also demonstrated strong associations between addictive use of technology and comorbid psychiatric disorders. In the present study, 23,533 adults (mean […]
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Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2016 Mar 14;13(3). pii: E313. doi: 10.3390/ijerph13030313. Tan Y1, Chen Y2, Lu Y3, Li L4. Abstract The primary aim of this study was to examine associations between problematic Internet use, depression and sleep disturbance, and explore whether there were differential effects of problematic Internet use and depression on sleep […]
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Hypothesis & Theory ARTICLE Front. Psychiatry, 03 March 2016 | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00006 Emmanuel Stip1,2*, Alexis Thibault1, Alexis Beauchamp-Chatel1 and Steve Kisely3,4,5 1Département de Psychiatrie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada 2Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montréal, QC, Canada 3School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia 4Department of Psychiatry, […]
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The Australian March 5, 2016 Natasha Bita Easy access to online pornography is said to be a key factor behind disturbing behaviour. The bigger boys would lie in wait for a kindergarten kid to wander into the school toilets. It was only when a six-year-old boy kept soiling himself in class that his mother twigged […]
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NeuroImage Volume 128, March 2016, Pages 342–352 Sofie V. Gelskova, b, , , , , Kristoffer H. Madsena, c, Thomas Z. Ramsøya, d, 1, Hartwig R. Siebnera, e, 1 doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.01.002 Open Access Highlights Pathological gamblers show U-shaped neural response to appetitive and aversive bets. This hypersensitivity is found in a cortico-striatal network, i.e. caudate and […]
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March 3, 2016 | by: Marco Reina Today, mobile phones and that constant internet connection through smartphones are an integral part of our life. But, beware smartphone users! Excessive use of internet-embedded smartphones could take a toll on your mental health, warns a new study. Several previous studies have demonstrated a link between excessive smartphone […]
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The following is YBOP’s response to David Ley’s Psychology Today blog post “We Must Rely on Good Science in Porn Debate (2016).” Ley’s post is his response to Philip Zimbardo’s Psychology Today blog post “Is Porn Good For Us or Bad For Us?” (2016). While Ley’s title says we must rely on “good science,” it […]
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