Background and aims: Research suggests that excessive online gaming may lead to
symptoms commonly experienced by substance addicts. Since games are particularly …

In the present review, an integrated approach to craving and addiction is discussed, which is
based on recent insights from psychology and neuropsychopharmacology. An integrated …

Abstract Background The Internet Gaming Disorder Scale (IGDS) is a widely used measure
of video game addiction, a pathology affecting a small percentage of all people who play …

Background and aims Despite many positive benefits, mobile phone use can be associated
with harmful and detrimental behaviors. The aim of this study was twofold: to examine (a) …

Young people's exposure to social network sites such as Facebook is increasing, along with
the potential for such use to complicate romantic relationships. Yet, little is known about the …

Recently, there have been growing concerns about excessive online gaming. Playing
Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) appears to be particularly …

'The Globalization of Addiction'presents a radical rethink about the nature of addiction.
Scientific medicine has failed when it comes to addiction. There are no reliable methods to …

What is 'addiction'? What does it say about us, our social arrangements and our political
preoccupations? Where is it going as an idea, and what is at stake in its ongoing …

Dysfunctional use of the mobile phone has often been conceptualized as a 'behavioural
addiction'that shares most features with drug addictions. In the current article, we challenge …

The present quantitative meta‐analysis set out to test whether cue‐reactivity responses in
humans differ across drugs of abuse and whether these responses constitute the biological …