This self - assessment test, created in 1998 by psychiatrist Kimberly Young of Saint Bonaventure University in New York State, is an unofficial standard among
Internet addiction researchers, and it consists of eight yes - or - no questions designed to separate online addicts from those who can manage their Internet use.
Not exact matches
Though some neuroscientists have suggested that
internet addiction can alter the brain in ways similar to alcohol and drug
addictions,
researchers have yet to provide similar data for smartphone
addiction.
Yet unlike
addictions to substances such as narcotics or nicotine, behavioral
addictions to the
Internet, food, shopping and even sex are touchy among medical and brain
researchers.
To study the effects of possible
Internet addiction on the brain,
researchers began with the Young Diagnostic Questionnaire for
Internet addiction.