Internet Addiction: A Clinical Disorder? - Judith Horstman

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/26/A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Your_Brain_Judith_Horstman

Author and journalist Judith Horstman outlines a chapter from her most recent book, Day in the Life of Your Brain. The chapter covers technology use and overuse, including the speculated relationship between screen time and attention span.

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What's your brain doing, right now? Award-winning journalist Judith Horstman writes about health and medicine for doctors as well as the general public. Her work has appeared in hundreds of publications worldwide and on the Internet.

Horstman discusses what your brain is doing as you go through a typical day: sleeping, waking, fighting, loving and making important decisions. - Commonwealth Club of California

Judith Horstman is an award-winning journalist who writes about health and medicine for doctors as well as the general public.

She has been a Washington correspondent, a journalism professor, a Fulbright scholar, and has written and edited in many media, including newspapers, newsletters, special health publications, radio, video, the Internet, annual reports and books.

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[DrSpooglemon]

I'm so glad she didn't say that video games, etc. are responsible for ADHD...

[mcluvin1357]

is there a better way to target internet addicts than a webpage. lol i mean really how can you bash that

[ileverette]

I'm addicted to god, and christ, hope my dopamine receptors can handle it. And on the bright side, even if the don't, I still have god. Now where did I put him again? Just kidding I know where he is. Here, and there. I think I might get addicted to posting about jesus on this you tube sight. Or not. Bye:)

[TundraRabbit]

says the old women

i moved away from my old school to a new one at the beginning with my freshman year

and there are people there that use drugs and are rude assholes, which i never had a problem with in my old school

i dont want to be friends with the assholes or the super smart try hards who ace every test

damn you, modern society!

[HerrSpieldose]

@HerrSpieldose the school system is boring and most advanced classes are filled with useful idiots that even the incompetents have affirmative action or sports or family status to threaten their way out of being failed, then it is no shock to me... I get all A's, have ADHD and spend most of my class time on facebook with friends because class time is boring... whether or not I am on Ritalin or not... so let's be realistic and take responsibility for the factors involved.

[HerrSpieldose]

@HerrSpieldose the school system is boring and most advanced classes are filled with useful idiots that even the incompetents have affirmative action or sports or family status to threaten their way out of being failed, then it is no shock to me... I get all A's, have ADHD and spend most of my class time on facebook with friends because class time is boring... whether or not I am on Ritalin or not... so let's be realistic and take responsibility for the factors involved.

[HerrSpieldose]

if the American Education system were up to par, then maybe there wouldn't be a problem with this so-called epidemic...

I have a boyfriend in Germany and am bored with the US education system so I often hit facebook and am on Skype daily with my man because of our relationship and I am in high level classes, learned 3 languages in college and aced them all and learned 2 on the side and knew German, English and Sign as a kid from family and the US education system fails and now boredom is a dx?

[mvtegel]

Sexism, ageism, racism.... are hurtful and disappointing. Some of you oils five that some thought whether you agree with this person or not.

[imseeingred9119]

@webeducation it's called irony. if you have any ounce of humor in you, you would get it. like she said, the treatment is using the illness as a medium for the treatment, kind of ironic isn''t it? that would be like telling a smoker that in order to quit you must buy a pack of cigarettes.

[quitejaded]

AHH! I have internet addiction AND ADD. Stimulants do NOT help my add problem so I think its more of an anxiety thing.

Anywaysssss... I need some solutions. Some techniques that will actually work and I can be comitted to because I am still in school. I don't have time to be addicted to the 'net and I can't make youtube my 'full time job' yet :o