This study investigated correlations between university students’ problematic internet use behaviors and shyness, narcissism, loneliness, aggression and self-perception. The participants were 424 students attending seven different faculties of a public university in Turkey; 215 were female and 209 male. Student’s ages ranged between 17 and 23, with a mean of 18.69. The Problematic Internet Use ...

1 Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, South Limburg Mental Health Research and Teaching Network, EURON, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands 2 King’s College London, King's Health Partners, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK 3 Mondriaan Zorggroep, Division Addiction Care, South Limburg, The Netherlands 4 Max Planck Institu...

The involvement of dopamine in addiction has its origins in studies investigating reward and reinforced behavior in preclinical studies. Much of this research has been explored in the human brain using Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging of striatal dopamine transmission. These studies show that addiction is associated with a decrease in dopamine D2/3 receptors and a decrease in pre-syna...

BACKGROUND Depression is a common mental disorder that is widely seen among adolescents suffering from mobile phone addiction. While it is well known that both positive emtions in adolescents wiotions and social support can have a positive impact by helping individuals to maintain a positive attitude, the correlation between positive emotions, social support, and depression among these adolesce...

Introduction Smoking is one of the major causes of preventable diseases, disability and death in the globe and Turkey. In our study, the knowledge of students about smoking addiction and which organ in the body is damaged due to smoking are aimed to be determined. Materials and Methods Surveys were applied to students of private university preparatory training center on the Anatolian side of ...

Author Contributions: A.C.S. and J.C.S. designed research; C.L.C. and M.G. conducted research; C.D.D., C.L.C., J.C.S., and A.C.S. analyzed data; C.D.D. and A.C.S. wrote the paper. A.C.S. had primary responsibility for final content. Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Addiction Medicine, Univers...

The Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center offers harm reduction programming to at-risk adolescent American Indian girls, including outreach, case management, advocacy, healthy sexuality education, and support groups. To evaluate program impact, participants are assessed at intake and every 6 months afterward for current vulnerability to commercial sexual exploitation, violence, and addiction...

I n a July 28 announcement, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, recently appointed as the 23rd commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), committed his agency to introduce a new guiding philosophy for the regulation of tobacco and nicotine. The associated news release set out the agency’s desire for a “new comprehensive plan for tobacco and nicotine regulation” and for an “approach [that] pla...

Xiaoli Hu, Huihui Guo, Yan He, Shan Wang, Lingling Zhang, Shi Wang, Xiaoting Huang, Scott William Roy, Wei Lu, Jingjie Hu* and Zhenmin Bao Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (Ocean University of China), Ministry of Education, Qingdao 266003, China Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C0930, Austin, TX 78712, USA Depa...

habibi r1 * (msc), karshky h2 (ph.d), dashtgard a3 (msc), heidary a4 (ph.d), talaei a5 (ph.d)     1 department of emergency medicine, school of para medicine, qazvin university of medical sciences, qazvin, iran   2 faculty of psychology, mashhad ferdowsi university   3 faculty of nursing and midwifery school, ghaen   4 nursing and midwifery school, mashhad university of medical sciences, mashha...