\u201cIn this \u2018downward spiral\u2019 association, the question of cause and effect can become blurry,\u201d said Weber, director of UCSB\u2019s Brain Imaging Center and a professor of communication and psychological and brain sciences.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Falcione and Weber\u2019s findings could help doctors and mental health professionals develop better treatment options as they drill down on root causes.<\/p>\n
\u201cBased on our research, the best step towards treatment would be to start at the psychopathology level \u2014 identify the underlying issues,\u201d Falcione said. \u201cThat\u2019s a big takeaway.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMany parents think that simply taking away video games will solve the problem,\u201d she added. \u201cBut without addressing what\u2019s really going on, parents will not only be contending with their child\u2019s withdrawal symptoms, their child may relapse into more addictive gaming behaviors or find another outlet.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Worldwide, gaming disorder presents among roughly 3% of all gamers, with prevalence numbers varying depending on disorder definition, game genre, player sample and location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIn this \u2018downward spiral\u2019 association, the question of cause and effect can become blurry,\u201d said Weber, director of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-104201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}