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 ...

One senior spent 10,000 yuan (S$1,820) tipping streamers within a month. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

South Korea's government and health officials are worried about teens addicted to gaming and their smartphones in the world's most connected society. South Korea is one of the most wired countries in ...

Dr Shalini Naik, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, PGIMER, says that reel addiction is real, as they have observed in their interactions with school students as part of a project that Dr ...

In Room 13, Gu Jinnan was wrestled into a chair, held down by seven men, and given no warning before a clinician stuck four thin needles into Gu’s hands, almost like acupuncture. Then, like something ...

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 ...

The Internet may be relatively new but the phenomenon of addiction and its basis in the brain are not. Software developers manifest a good understanding of this fact. They know what makes us click. So ...