Thursday, April 02, 2009

First internet-induced disorder identified

As a follow up to my book review about Nature-Deficit Disorder, I find there is now one caused by the Internet

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via acleareye.com by Tom Asacker on 4/1/09

The American Psychiatric Association is adding a new psychiatric disorder to the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). It's referred to as I.A.D.D., or Internet-induced Attention Dependence Disorder. You can read more about it at this link.


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