More parents are concerned about internet addiction by their adolescent children than substance addiction, according to the results of a survey published in JAMA Network Open on Oct. 26. Parents of ...

A cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based intervention found moderate success preventing gaming and internet addiction in at-risk youth, according to German researchers. Compared to a control group, ...

Addictions to online activities and video games have surged in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic, and dependence on such ...

What happens in the minds of people who use the internet addictively? Prof. Dr. Matthias Brand from the University of Duisburg-Essen and his team want to find out. Since 2020, the scientists have ...

The invention of social media’s never-ending scroll birthed an unforeseen addiction to the internet, and now, researchers are attempting to measure screen dependency in new studies. Scientists from ...

The Drexel Collaboratory on Addiction Treatment, Education and Research (CATER) promotes prevention, treatment and recovery from substance use and other compulsive behaviors through academic activity ...

More a popular idea than a scientifically valid concept, internet addiction is the belief that people can become so dependent on using their mobile phones or other electronic devices that they lose ...

Co-authored by Richard Zhang, M.D., M.A. and Eunice Y. Yuen, M.D., Ph.D. In 2022, a year after China’s government prohibited youth under age 18 from playing online games more than three hours per week ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lipi Roy writes about addiction, mental health and entertainment. The talk of the town at this year’s American Society of ...