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They are at a point in their life where decisions in their life affect their future and sitting in front of a computer unless it is your field of study is not getting them anywhere. The factors of this addiction are the lack of socializing, entertaining the user, and the rising of technology.
However, again we have to ask ourselves if it is a disorder, then what does it do to the human brain? In Scientific American, a study was published that indicates that brain scans hint that excessive time online is tied to stark and lethal physical changes in the brain. The work suggests that self-assessed Internet addiction, primarily through online multiplayer games, rewires structures deep in the brain. Even more telling, surface-level brain matter appears to shrink in step with the duration of online addiction. Loosely defined, addiction is a disease of the brain that compels someone to obsess over, obtain and abuse something, despite unpleasant health or social effects. And the internet addiction definitions run the total gamut, but most researchers have similarly described it as excessive Internet use that interferes with the rhythm of daily life. However, unlike addictions to substances such as narcotics or nicotine, behavioral addictions to the Internet, food, shopping and even sex are touchy among medical and brain researchers. Only gambling seems destined to make it into the next iteration of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, the internationally recognized bible of things that can go awry with the brain...
While it may not make it into the DSM as Mosher indicates, it does definitely seem to be doing something to the brains of the addicted people, especially children and causing their brains literally to become wired to use the Internet and online games more and more. Certainly, if this is not an addiction, one can hardly find another better definition.
Conclusion
As mentioned earlier slavery is a strong word to use about the connection that Americans have to the Internet. However, while Internet addiction as a disorder is a relatively new area of discussion among researchers, brain scans indicate that it is having an effect upon our brains. This paper has examined how well the research on the subject has revealed the true nature of this malady as a disorder and what its effects can be, which is hooking us to our computers and dumbing us down, especially with regard to children.
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