In this older study a different research group found changes in gray matter in brain regions
of Internet addicts.
This is good news for people who want to be somewhat more independent — and it's even better news
for Internet addicts who don't want to go entire days without checking their email.
Internet addicts in Latin America can get a «detox» treatment at Instituto Delete in Brazil, a center focused on treating...
They have found that
internet addicts typically spend most of their time playing online games, whereas smartphone junkies devote more time to social networking applications.
Perhaps because of this focus on relationships, smartphone addicts tend to be female
whereas internet addicts skew male, though statistics on the exact gender split are hard to come by.
Choi and his colleagues argue that they have met and treated not
only internet addicts but smartphone addicts.
As much as 14 percent of urban youth there — some 24 million kids — fit the bill
as Internet addicts, according to the China Youth Internet Association.
Still, Herzog's typically expressive cinematography and eye for quietly eccentric moments aren't absent: A
recovering internet addict is introduced while clumsily running across a playground bridge; a hermetic community living in a cell - tower - free zone celebrates together on banjos and fiddles; cows run across a field in slow motion while a rocket launches behind them; monks stand around staring at their smartphones.
But here's a last word from this «old media» practitioner, and
avowed Internet addict, who loves the physical rush of instant, hardcore information: every frontier eventually becomes settled territory.
A Comparative Analysis of Psychological Disorders
between Internet Addicted Students and Ordinary Internet Users in Zabol University of Medical Sciences
The abnormality in white matter in the right parahippocampal gyrus may make it harder
for Internet addicts to temporarily store and retrieve information, if a recent study is correct.
Get a first glimpse at Goro the Slacker, a hardcore gamer and
Internet addict in this Touch My Katamari trailer.
Whether we are workaholics, couch potatoes, or
internet addicts or what have you, it's a spiritual problem.
In China alone, it's estimated that 5 million of the country's 300 million Internet users are «
Internet addicts.»
It turns out, this isn't just because I'm part of a generation of compulsive email checkers or
internet addicts, or because I don't appreciate life enough.
Hello,
internet addicts - how's life treating you today?
Must be annoying without internet connection (here speaks
an internet addict).
Originally a haven for nerds, geeks and
internet addicts, OKCupid has blossomed to become a social network where you can happily wile away an entire evening without even visiting the dating features.
Are
you an internet addict?
Social media scholars, networking experts and
Internet addicts have the perfect tether to their worlds with the palm - fitting BlackBerry Curve.
For all your TV show buffs and
internet addicts, Lenovo Yoga 3 tablet.
Michael Tobis, a climate scientist and software engineer long at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, describes himself as a «sustainability nerd, neo-Texan,
Internet addict.»