What started out as web surfing by a healthy teen descended into online obsession and isolation. Was it depression, internet addiction or both?... Is 'Internet Addiction' Real? When her youngest ...

At the time, Lauren didn’t know what was wrong. Now, she says she sees it clear as day: She had a burgeoning internet and ...

The invention of social media’s never-ending scroll birthed an unforeseen addiction to the internet, and now, researchers are attempting to measure screen dependency in new studies. Scientists from ...

The increasing prevalence of screens and social media in the lives of children and adolescents have been a hot topic. There has been much public discussion and intense public debate about the ways ...

More a popular idea than a scientifically valid concept, internet addiction is the belief that people can become so dependent on using their mobile phones or other electronic devices that they lose ...