Do you religiously check BNET each day for the latest posts? And do you return throughout the day to check up on the comment flow? If so, you may have an "internet addiction." But it's only a problem ...

Can't resist the siren call of the status update? Is Pinterest your only interest lately? These behaviors could soon land you an official diagnosis of "Internet addict." Eric Mack has been a CNET ...

Since Internet addiction disorder (IAD) was first introduced by Dr. Goldberg as a new type of addiction in 1995, Internet addiction has been widely covered. Research has been published; diagnostic ...

Reporting from Beijing — After spending three days and three nights at an Internet cafe, Hou Xing reluctantly parted with his keyboard, stepped out into the blistering sun and collapsed. His parents ...

New research conducted by the Chinese Academy of Science published in the journal PLos One revealed that the brain properties of web-addicted adolescents are similar to those addicted to drugs and ...

Internet addiction isn’t something new or particularly uncommon. It is now a global issue, one of the defining challenges of our digital era. One former addict shared her story, confessing that her ...

It's official. After months of debate and study, the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM) will include "internet use disorder" as an area "recommended for ...

Newsweek's cover story this week posits that "new research says the Internet can make us lonely and depressed--and may even create more extreme forms of mental illness." We found an Internet addict to ...

In 1997, when connecting to the internet still involved a lot of whirring and beeping, a study in Psychological Reports noted that "while individual cases of problems from excessive computer usage are ...

Newsweek's cover story this week posits that "new research says the Internet can make us lonely and depressed--and may even create more extreme forms of mental illness." We found an Internet addict to ...

I have always been impressed by one of the opening scenes in the movie "The Matrix". Neo is slumped over on his desk, asleep, while endless images and words scroll by on his computer. As someone ...