Internet and Technology Addiction in the News………
Does life online give you ‘popcorn brain’? (CNN)
- Experts worry the stimulation of electronic multitasking could make people unfit for real life
- The human brain is wired to crave the instant gratification of technology
- Studies show multitasking on the Internet can make you forget how to read human emotions
Clinic helps those with worst Internet addictions (AsiaOne)
- Lee Jae-won, head of the nation’s first specialized Internet addiction clinic, has seen first hand the physical effects that Internet addiction has on the brain. “We can detect a lot of abnormalities in the prefrontal cortex part of the brain in …
Sex addiction fueled by Internet (Tulsa World)
- As many as 18 million people are considered sex addicts, with behaviors that have taken on new dimensions with the explosion of the Internet. Almost 60 percent of online sexual compulsive behavior results exclusively from Internet use, according to …
Sex addicts find ready enabler in the Internet (NewsOK.com)
- Addiction to sex is much like other addictions, experts say. As many as 18 million people are sex addicts, according to estimates by the Mayo Clinic. While experts say the Internet isn’t creating sex addicts, it’s making the addiction more secretive …
Study: Internet Addiction is Declining Among Young People (OpposingViews.com)
- According to a new study, the link between internet addiction and mental health problems for adolescents and young adults may not be as bad as initially believed. Dimitri A. Christakis, the lead researcher of the study, utilized 224 eligible college …
‘Problematic Internet usage’ more common than asthma (CNET)
- Perhaps more surprisingly, the researchers found in the first study that out of the 224 college students who took the Internet Addiction Test, only 9 of them (4 percent) scored in the “occasional problem” or “addicted” range. …
Maybe The Internet’s Not The Most Addictive And Depressing Thing Ever (motherboard.vice.com)
- Christakis had 224 college students at a pair of universities take the Internet Addiction Test, a gem of an exam that asks subjects to evaluate, among other things, just how much web surfing is getting in the way of doing chores and having sex. …
Internet Addiction and Television Affect Sleep: Study (topnews.us)
- The experiment included the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) were provided with a questionnaire, Mr. Christakis related the problematic internet usage and the level of depression among the students. The study, led by Garrison, was on 600 children …
Media usage leads to sleep problems in children (dnaindia.com Daily News & Analysis)
- In Christakis’ study where 224 eligible college students at two US universities completed a survey that included the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) as well as the patient health questionnaire, Christakis assessed the link between problematic Internet …
Are smartphones creating tech addicts? (The Seattle Times)
- “It’s crazy in our mind that we could become addicted to a device, but that’s what is happening,” says David Greenfield, a West Hartford, Conn. …
‘Internet Addiction’ on the Decline in College Students (PsychCentral.com)
- A new pilot study investigates the risk of “Internet addiction” among adolescents and young adults — a population segment that has been shown to be at high risk for behavioral addictions. “Internet addiction” is …
Are you a netcase? (Times of India)
- They dont know it, but they suffer from a new clinical condition called IAD Internet Addiction Disorder. The west is already grappling with it. Studies are being conducted to find out the extent of the problem and its effect on the brain. …
Croatia´s young hi-tech addicts to get help in new camp (Croatian Times)
- If denied access to computer screens and mobile phones, these children go crazy, Ramljak said in speaking about the young addicts. “Earlier these were high-schoolers, but today you have 10-year-olds amongst the internet addicts. …
Problematic Internet Usage in US College Students: A Pilot Study (BMC Pediatrics)
- Internet addiction among US college students remains a concern, but robust estimates of its prevalence are lacking. We conducted a pilot survey of 307 college students at two US universities. Participants completed the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) as …
Internet Addiction Causes Brain Changes (Mobiledia.com)
- People who fit common criteria for Internet Addiction Disorder, or IAD, show changes in brain structure, according to a new study. Analysis of MRI scans found that small regions of the IAD subjects’ brains …
High Wired: Does Addictive Internet Use Restructure the Brain? (Scientific American)
- The work, published June 3 in PLoS ONE, suggests self-assessed Internet addiction, primarily through online multiplayer games, rewires structures deep in the brain. What’s more, surface-level brain matter appears to shrink in step with the duration of …
Text Neck (The Text Neck Institute)
- Hours spent texting, working on laptops and playing video games with the neck flexed forward create a problem called. The repetitive motion can alter a normal cervical spine, which has a reversed C curve. When that curve is lost or reversed, it puts undo pressure on the spine, irritating the muscles, nerves and joints…
