Can disordered mobile phone use be considered a behavioral addiction? An update on current evidence and a comprehensive model for future research [PDF]
Despite the many positive outcomes, excessive mobile phone use is now often associated with potentially harmful and/or disturbing behaviors (e.g., symptoms of deregulated use, negative impact on various aspects of daily life such as relationship problems,
A Bianchi +55 more
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Sex differences in behavioral dyscontrol: Role in drug addiction and novel treatments
The purpose of this review is to discuss recent findings related to sex differences in behavioral dyscontrol that lead to drug addiction, and clinical implications for humans are discussed.
Marilyn E. Carroll, John R. Smethells
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Estimation of Behavioral Addiction Prevalence During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. [PDF]
Alimoradi Z +4 more
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Education-based stigma and discrimination among young adults not in 4-year college
Background Lower levels of education are strongly associated with negative health outcomes. The current study examined the degree to which those without a history of 4-year college attendance experience social stigmatization of their educational status ...
Matthew K. Meisel +3 more
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Background: Studies suggest a broad spectrum of behaviors associated with drinking. Consequently, it is unclear whether patterns of familial risk for psychopathology are directly or indirectly related to patterns of alcohol use and problems in late ...
April L Brown +4 more
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Multi-omic and multi-species meta-analyses of nicotine consumption
Cross-species translational approaches to human genomic analyses are lacking. The present study uses an integrative framework to investigate how genes associated with nicotine use in model organisms contribute to the genetic architecture of human tobacco
Rohan H. C. Palmer +11 more
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Cocaine Addiction as a Homeostatic Reinforcement Learning Disorder [PDF]
Drug addiction implicates both reward learning and homeostatic regulation mechanisms of the brain. This has stimulated 2 partially successful theoretical perspectives on addiction.
Durand, A. +4 more
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Pathological gambling: a behavioral addiction. [PDF]
Mann K +4 more
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Online gaming addiction in children and adolescents: a review of empirical research [PDF]
Background and aims: Research suggests that excessive online gaming may lead to symptoms commonly experienced by substance addicts. Since games are particularly appealing to children and adolescents, these individuals may be more at risk than other ...
Griffiths, MD, Kuss, DJ
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Response to Cognitive impulsivity and the behavioral addiction model of obsessive–compulsive disorder: Abramovitch and McKay (2016) [PDF]
In our recently published article, we investigated the behavioral addiction model of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), by assessing three core dimensions of addiction in patients with OCD healthy participants.
Figee, Martjin +4 more
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