Co-consuming a “fun addiction”

Fun&Co: identification of key functional differences in transcriptomes

MOTIVATION Microarray and other genome-wide technologies allow a global view of gene expression that can be used in several ways and whose potential has not been yet fully discovered. Functional insight into expression profiles is routinely obtained by using gene ontology terms associated to the cellular genes. In this article, we deal with functional data mining from expression profiles, propo...

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Is It A Wolf Consuming Fertility?

Clarifying Exercise Addiction: Differential Diagnosis, Co-occurring Disorders, and Phases of Addiction

This paper sets out to clarify the unique features of exercise addiction. It begins by examining how this addiction can be distinguished from compulsions and impulse control disorders both of which, like an addiction, involve excessive behavior that creates adverse effects. Assessment of exercise addiction also requires that clinicians be attuned to other forms of excessive behavior, especially...

Drug, nicotine, and alcohol use among exercisers: Does substance addiction co-occur with exercise addiction?☆☆☆

Background Scholastic works suggest that those at risk for exercise addiction are also often addicted to illicit drugs, nicotine, and/or alcohol, but empirical evidence is lacking. Aims The aim of the present work was to examine the co-occurrence of illicit drug, nicotine, and alcohol use frequency (prevalence of users) and severity (level of problem in users) among exercisers classified at t...

Co-Morbidity of Internet Addiction with Anxiety and Depression

Problematic Internet use [PIU], or Internet addiction, is characterized by excessive use, impairment, or distress as result of the use of the internet. Early studies by Young [1] Griffiths, [2,3] and Aboujaoude [4] defined this disorder and included extensive research on it. The condition has attracted increasing attention in the popular media and among researchers, and this increase in attenti...