MANILA, Philippines – The computer may have made life easier and tasks faster. But like all good things, it can be abused and lead to addiction, especially in children. They can be so obsessed with ...

As technology becomes increasingly integrated into our daily lives, the computer usage has skyrocketed among children. While it can be an excellent source of learning and entertainment, excessive use ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Tom Wood was always irritable, tired and not interested in anything but his "bloody computer", his father Ray Wood said. It was not ...

Internet and computer addiction should be recognised as a legitimate side effect of mental illness among adolescents, a psychiatrist has told a national psychiatry congress in Darwin. For three years, ...

A 15-year-old middle schoolboy strangled his mother earlier this week in a fit of anger during an argument over his playing of violent computer games and then took his own life, sounding a wake-up ...

When trying to determine whether a child is addicted to computer games or the Internet, parents should not only consider the amount of time the child spends at it. This is according to Klaus Woelfling ...

social, psychological, genetic, physical or chemical disturbance. It is measured in terms of deviation from some normative concepts. What does addiction mean? "It is a nonscientific term that implies ...