New game software (Pokémon Go) may help youth with severe social withdrawal, hikikomori

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 246, Issue , 2016, Pages 848-849

  Tateno, Masaru ^a,b   Skokauskas, Norbert ^c   Kato, Takahiro A ^d,e   Teo, Alan R ^f,g,h   Guerrero, Anthony P S ⁱ  

^a Tokiwa Child Development Center Tokiwa Hospital   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HIKIKOMORI; HUMAN; INTERNET ADDICTION; LETTER; MOBILE APPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; SMARTPHONE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85027935133     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.10.038     Document Type: Letter

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