Many people spend hours on the internet every week – but some people can’t pull away. For individuals with internet addiction, there’s a type of short-term therapy that can be an effective treatment, ...

There’s been a lot of controversy about some of the maladies included in the freshly revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders (DSM-V). Internet addiction, or formally, ...

The voluntary, 10-day program will admit up to four patients at a time. Sept. 4, 2013— -- A psychologist first coined the phrase "Internet addiction" in 1995, when the web was in its infancy. He ...

Do you feel lost without your smartphone in hand and a strong WiFi signal? Scientists have developed a new internet addiction spectrum that reveals just how reliant you are on having a connection. At ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was staring at an inbox overflowing with emails about porn. Not spam, but hundreds of personal emails from people I'd never met, detailing their relationships with Internet pornography. The emails ...

Dr. Mark Griffiths has received research funding from a wide range of organizations including the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy and the Responsibility in Gambling Trust. He ...

Internet addiction has become such a problem in the US that special treatment programmes have begun to spring up to help wean young people off their digital dependency. How long should kids spend on ...

Exclusive: centre in London will focus on gaming disorders, with plans to expand A London hospital is preparing to launch the first ever NHS-funded internet addiction centre for young people and ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, researchers describe the relationship between problematic internet use (PIU) and the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity ...