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Over 3000 high school students 2009–2015 IAT Taiwan 13.8% [128] 1708 high school students n.a. YDQ South Korea 2.1% [72] An estimate based on Korean population aged 6–19 years 2006 Japan 2.0% [129] 853 adolescents aged 12–15 years 2014 IAT Europe: Europe 4.4% [130] 11,956 adolescents in 11 European countries 2009–2010 YDQ Germany 1.5 ...
Internet addiction is associated with disrupted signaling in brain regions important for functions such as managing attention, a new study of teens has found. How internet addiction may affect ...
Research suggests that using the Internet helps boost brain power for middle-aged and older people [17] (research on younger people has not been done). The study compares brain activity when the subjects were reading and when the subjects were surfing the Internet. It found that Internet surfing uses much more brain activity than reading does.
According to a Korean study on internet/computer addiction, pathological use of the internet results in negative life impacts such as job loss, marriage breakdown, financial debt, and academic failure. 70% of internet users in Korea are reported to play online games, 18% of whom are diagnosed as game addicts, which relates to internet/computer ...
Forms of technology addiction have been considered as diagnoses since the mid 1990s. [3] In current research on the adverse consequences of technology overuse, "mobile phone overuse" has been proposed as a subset of forms of "digital addiction" or "digital dependence", reflecting increasing trends of compulsive behavior among users of technological devices. [4]
The addiction involves genetic predisposition, corrupted brain chemistry, entrenched environmental factors and any number of potential mental-health disorders — it requires urgent medical intervention. According to the medical establishment, medication coupled with counseling is the most effective form of treatment for opioid addiction.
An Oklahoma student who died the day after a fight at school told police they threw water at three students who had been bullying them and that the students responded by beating them, according to ...
Internet sex addiction, also known as cybersex addiction, has been proposed as a sexual addiction characterized by virtual internet sexual activity that causes serious negative consequences to one's physical, mental, social, and/or financial well-being. [65] [66] It may be considered a form of problematic internet use. [67]