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 ...

You might call Kimberly Young a Web-junkie junkie. A licensed psychologist, she founded the Center for Internet Addiction in 1995—before Internet addiction was widely recognized as a problem—and has ...

Are you someone whose first craving in the morning for your computer mouse? Do you obsessively check email in the middle of the night? Then you may be an Internet addict. Do not worry, there’s help at ...

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 ...

For some, the Internet it has become an addiction, adversely affecting their lives and their family's lives. While not yet defined as a true addiction, many people are suffering the consequences of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. A new article published in Frontiers in Psychology offers insight into ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Chinese teenager was allegedly beaten to death by counselors at one of the country’s rehabilitation camps for Internet addicts, state media said Wednesday. Deng Senshan, 15, was pronounced dead ...