Every aspect of addiction can be considered as a highly complex process during which the function of nervous processes which are responsible for controlling behaviour associated with the object of addiction is changed by means of using/consuming the object of addiction. There is an uncontrolled need directed to appropriate behaviour, but also a tendency to amount to the least extent all types o...

et al., 2009; Stice and Dagher, 2010) where they “overlap” (Avena et al., 2012). In human subjects, food addiction has been associated with similar patterns of neural activation as substance addiction in anterior cingulated cortex, medial orbitofrontal cortex, and amygdala (Gearhardt et al., 2011b). “Common hedonic mechanisms may therefore underlie obesity and drug addiction,” concluded Johnson...

Objective: To study the prevalence of Internet Addiction among Medical undergraduates and Interns exploration its association with anxiety disorders.
 Methods: It is a cross-sectional survey conducted 540 undergraduate medical students 93 at Government College, Ananthapuramu. Young’s Test Zung’s self-rated Anxiety scale were applied to measure addiction Anxiety, respectively.
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This essay investigates the tensions produced by the categorization of different forms of excessive desire under the singular model of addiction, and it challenges the increasing acceptance of addiction as an all-purpose explanation for unruly desires through a comparison of the different forms of disordered desire in sex addiction and alcoholism. Moreover, it argues for a broad understanding o...

Investigations over the past two years have indicated that there is an upward trend in drug addiction and that the increase is predominantly among the younger members of society. Addiction has been compared to a contagious disease and the more our attitude toward addiction approximates our attitude toward contagious disease, the better will be our understanding and control of addiction. Physici...

The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between Facebook involvement and internet addiction. We sampled 577 university students in Taiwan and administered a survey of Facebook usage, Facebook involvement scale (FIS), and internet addiction scale. The FIS comprises three factors (salience, emotional support, and amusement). Results showed that the Facebook involvement scale had ...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the relationships between parental mediation and Internet addiction, and the connections to cyberbullying, substance use, and depression among adolescents. METHOD The study involved 1808 junior high school students who completed a questionnaire in Taiwan in 2013. RESULTS Multiple logistic regression analysis results showed that adolescents who perceived lower l...

Oncogene addiction is a phenomenon that the survival of cancer cells depends on an activated oncogene or inactivation of tumor suppressor gene, and is regarded as the 'Achilles heel' of the successful molecular targeted therapies in cancer. However, the role of oncogene addiction in gliomas has not been elucidated systematically. In this review, we summarize the current experimental and clinica...

Since problematic internet use has long been a matter of public concern. The purpose of this study was to evaluate prevalence of internet addiction and its relation with depression and self esteem. This study is descriptive correlation, 408 students (258 males and 150 females) were chosen by multi step cluster sampling. The tools of measurement were the Young internet addiction, coopersmith sel...

BACKGROUND There is ongoing controversy about whether or not internet addiction should be considered a non-substance behavioral addiction (like gambling disorder) and, if so, what diagnostic criteria should be used to define the condition. Current criteria for internet addiction give equal diagnostic weight to the physiological symptoms and the social consequences of internet addiction. AIM A...