Year: 2020

The World Health Organization (WHO) has just established video game addiction as a form of mental health disorder. Video game addiction is included in the latest version of the disease classification released by WHO on Monday (6/18).

In that classification, WHO defines addiction to play games characterized by repetitive patterns of game behavior, whether online or offline. Addiction to play can be seen from several manifestations of the inability to control the game, prioritizing the game over the interests of other lives and continuing the game even though it has negative consequences.

“What’s important is that this behavior (playing games) continues despite these negative consequences,” mental health and substance abuse experts for WHO Vladimir Poznyak, quoted by The San Diego Union-Tribunne, said.

Poznyak explained that a person can be qualified as a mental health disorder who is addicted to video games if repetitive play activities damage personal life, family, social, … Read more

Smells and emotions tug on the mind’s habenula, or ‘little rein’

The image exhibits the forebrain (high half) and midbrain (backside half) or a juvenile zebrafish. The habenula (cyan) are the tiny nuclei in the course of the 2 huge buildings. Credit: Stephanie Fore

A tiny region in the middle of the brain plays a far more vital role than previously identified in serving to it reply to modifications in the setting, a new study reveals.

This area is named the habenula, a reputation that reflects its directional position. Habenula means “little rein” in Latin, and a rein, after all, is the leather strap on a horse’s bridle used to direct it.

The research, performed by researchers at the Norwegian College of Science and Know-how’s Kavli Institute for Methods Neuroscience, was printed Friday in the scientific journal Present Biology.

The researchers, with first creator Ewelina Bartoszek, did their experiments in … Read more