Behaviour: Internet Use Tied to Depression in Youths
Posted in: Internet Use/New Technologies at 10/08/2010 15:32
A large Chinese study suggests that otherwise healthy teenagers are much more vulnerable to depression if they spend too much time on the Internet.
Researchers who followed more than 1,000 students at high schools in Guangzhou -- all of them free of anxiety and depression at the start of the study -- found that after nine months, rates of severe depression among "pathological" users were 2.5 times those of the others.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/health/research/10beha.html
