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BRAIN ANATOMY ALTERATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE (SNS) ADDICTION
March 2017 Qinghua He , Ofir Turel , Antoine Bechara This study relies on knowledge regarding the neuroplasticity of dual-system...


THE EFFECTS OF DIGITAL ADDICTION ON BRAIN FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS: A SCOPING REVIEW
Dec. 2023 KEYA DING, YINING SHEN, QIANMING LIU, HUI LI The escalating prevalence of studies investigating digital addiction (DA) and its...


EPISTEMIC INEQUALITY IN THE DIGITAL ERA: UNPACKING BIASES IN DIGITAL MENTAL HEALTH
Sept. 2025 ANA TOMIČIĆ MARIJA ADELA GJORGJIOSKA This article examines biases in digital mental health and their impact on technical,...


MINDS IN CRISIS: HOW THE AI REVOLUTION IS IMPACTING MENTAL HEALTH
Sept. 2025 Keith Robert HeadLMSW, Master ' s in Social Work (MSW), West Texas A & M University, USAMaster of Business Administration...


FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH DIGITAL ADDICTION: UMBRELLA REVIEW
Sept. 2025 Yun Han, Jiamin Qiu, Chengbin Shi, Shiqi Huang, Haokun Huang, Xinman Wang, Sui Zhu, Da-lin Lu, Peng Lu, Fangfang Zeng...


A NETWORK ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BEHAVIORAL INHIBITION/ACTIVATION SYSTEMS AND PROBLEMATIC MOBILE PHONE USE
Sept. 2025 Lingfeng Gao, Wan Zhao, Xiaowei Chu, Haide Chen, Weijian Li Background It is of great concern to society that individuals can...


INTERNET ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY AND MEDIATION ANALYSIS IN MEDICAL STUDENTS WITH A PSYCHIATRIC MAJOR
Sept. 2025 Ying Lu, Yue Lu, Yu Tian, Yu Gan, Xiaolu Chen, Xiao Li Background: Internet Addiction (IA) has become a significant public...


ASSOCIATION BETWEEN EXCESSIVE INTERNET USE TIME, INTERNET ADDICTION, AND PHYSICAL-MENTAL MULTIMORBIDITY AMONG CHINESE ADOLESCENTS: CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY
Aug. 2025 Huiwen Gu; Bing Shi; Huanying He; Sumei Yuan; Jijiao Cai; Xiaofang Chen; Zhongxiao Wan Background: In contemporary society, the...


"PHONE IN THE ROOM, MIND ON THE ROAM": INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF MOBILE PHONE PRESENCE ON DISTRACTION
Aug. 2025 Andrea Christodoulou Petros Roussos In the digital age, mobile phones significantly impact human cognition and behavior. This...


NOOSEMIA: TOWARD A COGNITIVE AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF INTENTIONALITY ATTRIBUTION IN HUMAN-GENERATIVE AI INTERACTION
Aug. 2025 E nrico De Santis Antonello Rizzi This paper introduces and formalizes Noosemìa, a novel cognitive-phenomenological pattern...


THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF AN INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT OF IRRATIONAL BELIEFS CONCERNING BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS: THE RATIONAL EMOTIVE SELF-DETERMINATION SCALE FOR WORKERS
Aug. 2025 Murat Artiran Pinar Tinaz Ömer Faruk Simsek Anthony Miller Katia Correa Vione Martin James Turner Introduction: Recently a new...


CONSUMPTION, RELATIVE DEPRIVATION AND MENTAL HEALTH: EVIDENCE FROM HEDONIC CONSUMPTION
Aug. 2025 Hao Li Weihong Zeng Introduction: In recent years, relative deprivation related to consumption has sparked intense debate,...


A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIAL MEDIA ON COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS
Sept. 2025 Dinesh Deckker 1 , Subhashini Sumanasekara 2 1 Wrexham University, United Kingdom 2 University of Gloucestershire, United...


VISTOPICS: A VISUAL SEMANTIC UNSUPERVISED APPROACH TO TOPIC MODELING OF VIDEO AND IMAGE DATA
Sept. 2025 Understanding visual narratives is crucial for examining the evolving dynamics of media representation. This study introduces...


VISUAL CULTURE IN SOCIAL MEDIA: A STUDY ON THE INFLUENCE OF INSTAGRAM ON AESTHETICS AND YOUTH CULTURE TRENDS
Sept. 2025 This study examines the influence of visual aesthetics on Instagram in shaping social identity and user behavior, with a focus...


SOCIAL MODELS INFLUENCE VISUAL PERSPECTIVE TAKING IN MEMORY
Sept. 2025 The ability to take others’ perspectives is crucial for social functioning, giving insight into the viewpoints of those around...


BALANCING PROMISE AND CONCERN IN AI THERAPY: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON EARLY EVIDENCE FROM THE MIT–OPENAI RCT
Sept. 2025 The emergence of AI therapy chatbots has the potential to reduce the widening gap between the huge demand for psychological...


THE IMPACT OF TECHNOSTRESS ON ROLE STRESS AND PRODUCTIVITY
Sept. 2025 Monideepa Tarafdar Qiang Tu Bhanu S. Ragu-Nathan T. S. Ragu-Nathan Based on empirical survey data, this paper uses concepts...


PROBLEMATIC SOCIAL MEDIA USE IS ASSOCIATED WITH BELIEVING IN AND ENGAGING WITH FAKE NEWS
Aug. 2025 Dar Meshi , Maria D. Molina Social media use is ubiquitous in our modern society, and some individuals display excessive,...


SOCIAL MEDIA AND MENTAL HEALTH
Aug. 2025 Luca Braghieri Bocconi University - Department of Decision Sciences Ro'ee Levy Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of...
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