With guest host Jane Clayson. Boot-camp style rehabilitation centers in China to treat Internet addiction, and the problem here in the US. A teenager under treatment in the documentary film "Web ...

Shock therapy is used when all other methods have failed. That too, in cases of excessive depression and anxiety, I did not hear any instance of shock therapy (also known as electro-convulsive therapy ...

Despite the humor in the photos below, web addiction is apparently a serious problem. According to recent research, one in four employees are addicted to the Internet. It’s not the midday coffees or ...

Forget those after work cocktails that gradually become more of a necessity than a social pleasure. Forget that extra half pack of cigarettes that gets smoked during the day to alleviate stress from ...

Webaholics are not alone. There are support groups, homepages and parody pages out there for the web addict. The Internet Addiction Disorder page gives you an in-depth list to find out if you really ...

The proliferation of online social networks and video games has led to the rise of what many psychologists are calling a very real phenomenon: internet addiction. And college students, researchers say ...

Digital Journal — “Addiction” is not a word that should be taken lightly. Every time the word is mentioned, images of drug dependence, alcoholism and smoking come to mind. But today, technology is ...

In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, researchers examined the mediating function of web addiction in the association between alexithymia and depressive symptoms and the moderating ...

China’s population of internet users broke 700 million this year, and government reports have estimated that over 20 million of those users suffer from internet addiction. For one of these addicts, 18 ...

Addiction is an inability to stop using a substance or engaging in a behavior even though it may cause psychological or physical harm. The term addiction does not only refer to dependence on ...

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 ...