A 15-year-old middle schoolboy strangled his mother earlier this week in a fit of anger during an argument over his playing of violent computer games and then took his own life, sounding a wake-up ...

I just got done reading an article on internet and MMORPG addiction, http://www.gamergod.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=174 and it got me to wondering. <BR><BR ...

How Many Youngsters Are at Risk of Internet Addiction? Internet addiction has become a major social problem in the United States, Korea, and other countries. And now the same thing is happening in ...

TOKYO -- The World Health Organization (WHO) officially recognized video game addiction as a psychological disorder on May 25. However, Japanese researchers have been tracking the problem at home for ...

The Kagawa Prefecture Internet Game Addiction Countermeasures Ordinance stipulates that 'games are limited to 60 minutes a day, and 90 minutes a day on holidays.' A six-week study of nearly 40,000 ...

Internet addiction rewires teenagers' brains and may make them more likely to engage in other addictive behaviour, new research suggests. Signalling between different areas of the brain related to ...

Gaming disorder is globally recognised as a behavioural addiction. Experts dive into the mental health impact of the condition that’s on the rise in India A shocking incident recently made headlines ...

The smartphone joins the heart, brain, lungs and so on as an additional organ – external instead of internal. Smartphones are part of us, an increasingly inseparable part. We can’t take our eyes off ...