Psychological and neuroscientific advances to understand Internet Use Disorder

Psychological Assessment The Internet Gaming Disorder Scale

INTRINSIC MOTIVATION Psychological and Neuroscientific Perspectives

The aim of this essay is to give an overview of the topic of intrinsic motivation based on psychological and neuroimaging research. More specifically, the objective is to give an overview of the various benefits of intrinsic motivation, discuss its relationship to extrinsic rewards, and review the existing neuroimaging research that has explicitly explored intrinsic motivation. A positive relat...

Students’ Tendency to Ethical Use of Internet

Background: Positive use of internet may lead to the progress in life and unethical use of internet may take us away from scientific goals. The ‎purpose of the research is to study the tendency of students in ethical usage of internet.  Method: Study is a descriptive and analytical type and it has been done by survey method.  The ‎statistical population is 13485 individuals of students of Urmia...

Neuroscientific Investigations of Musical Rhythm: Recent Advances and Future Challenges

Neuroscientific research into music has increased noticeably over the last two decades, but how (or if) the findings have improved our understanding of music is debatable. This question is considered in this article, which first describes advances in neuroimaging techniques, and then reviews findings from research in the neuroscience of music (with a focus on rhythm and meter). Some of the diff...

Risk Factors for Internet Gaming Disorder: Psychological Factors and Internet Gaming Characteristics

Background: Understanding the risk factors associated with Internet gaming disorder (IGD) is important to predict and diagnose the condition. The purpose of this study is to identify risk factors that predict IGD based on psychological factors and Internet gaming characteristics; Methods: Online surveys were conducted between 26 November and 26 December 2014. There were 3568 Korean Internet gam...