A view widely accepted
among addiction researchers is that drug abuse can cause the brain to form persistent, enduring associations between a drug and the environment in which it is purchased and consumed.
Not exact matches
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.
Whereas descriptions of online
addiction are controversial at best
among researchers, a new study cuts through much of the debate and hints that excessive time online can physically rewire a brain.
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.
A recent study, published in The American Journal of
Addiction by Joseph J. Palamar, PhD, MPH, a CDUHR affiliated
researcher and an assistant professor of Population Health at NYU Langone Medical Center (NYULMC), is
among the first nationally representative studies in the US to examine self - reported use of bath salts.
Researchers at Jefferson's Maternal
Addiction Treatment Education & Research (MATER) program found significant improvement in the quality of parenting
among mothers who participated in a trauma - informed, mindfulness - based parenting intervention while also in medication - assisted treatment for opioid use disorder.
Researchers discovered that smartphone
addiction may lead to chemical imbalances in the brain, resulting in anxiety and depression,
among others.
Based on a large amount of data from previous studies on these participants, the
researchers identified a correlation between various psychiatric disorders
among children and later risk of developing
addictions.
PRI staff have been joined by other Canadian colleagues in an interdisciplinary dialogue
among researchers, practitioners and policy makers to deepen the conceptual framework that informs our assessment, intervention and evaluation of adolescents struggling with mental health and
addictions (Pine River Institute and The Hospital for Sick Children 2010).