Researchers compared brain scans of young people with ‘internet addiction disorder’ (IAD) with their peers and found damage to the white matter fibers connecting emotional processing, attention and decision making components.
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Is Internet Dependence Taking Part Of You?
A research from the University of Melbourne in Australia subjected 173 college students to test for problematic internet and gambling behaviors, around 5% of the students showed signs of gambling problems while 10% of the students posted as what considerably high enough to put them in the at risk category for internet ‘addiction’.