Internet Gaming Disorder in the DSM-5

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Petry, Nancy M ^a   Rehbein, Florian ^b   Ko, Chih Hung ^c   O’Brien, Charles P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony   (Germany)

^c KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Behavioral addiction; DSM 5; Internet gaming

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DSM-5; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTERNET ADDICTION; INTERNET GAMING DISORDER; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CONCEPT FORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; INTERNET; MENTAL DISORDERS; VIDEO GAME;

CONCEPT FORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84938304018     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-015-0610-0     Document Type: Review

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