ReviewWorld journal of psychiatry2023
Neurobiological risk factors for problematic social media use as a specific form of Internet addiction: A narrative review.
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- Mediating Roles of Self-Control and Social Support in the Relationship Between Problematic Internet Use and Depression Among Korean Children and Adolescents.Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Demystifying the New Dilemma of Brain Rot in the Digital Era: A Review.Brain sciences · 2025Review
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- The relationship between family functioning and social media addiction among university students: a moderated mediation model of depressive symptoms and peer support.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Internet addiction and depressive symptoms in adolescents: joint trajectories and predictors.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The shield of the screen: The role of anger on the development of social media addiction and internet gaming disorder.AIMS public health · 2024Article
- Association between the Taq1A polymorphism and problematic media use in preadolescent children.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Problematic social media use (PSMU) is a behavioral addiction, a specific form of problematic Internet use associated with the uncontrolled use of social networks. It is typical mostly for modern adolescents and young adults, which are the first generations fully grown up in the era of total digitalization of society. The modern biopsychosocial model of the formation of behavioral addictions, postulating the impact of a large number of biological, psychological, and social factors on addictive behavior formation, may be quite applicable to PSMU. In this narrative review, we discussed neurobiological risk factors for Internet addiction with a focus on current evidence on the association between PSMU and structural/ functional characteristics of the brain and autonomic nervous system, neurochemical correlations, and genetic features. A review of the literature shows that the vast majority of the mentioned neurobiological studies were focused on computer games addiction and generalized Internet addiction (without taking into account the consumed content). Even though a certain number of neuroimaging studies have been conducted for PSMU, there is practically no research on neuropeptide and genetic associations for PSMU to date. This fact points to the extremely high relevance of such studies.
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