Is Pathological Trading an Overlooked Form of Addiction?

Pathological Buying Online as a Specific Form of Internet Addiction: A Model-Based Experimental Investigation

The study aimed to investigate different factors of vulnerability for pathological buying in the online context and to determine whether online pathological buying has parallels to a specific Internet addiction. According to a model of specific Internet addiction by Brand and colleagues, potential vulnerability factors may consist of a predisposing excitability from shopping and as mediating va...

Mycoplasma Is An Overlooked Lyme Co-Infection

These are the smallest organisms that can live independently. Of the over 100 known species, more than a dozen are found in humans. Many of them cause disease. They don’t have a cell wall or cell nucleus, usually act like parasites within or outside host cells, and can take on different shapes. This versatility allows them to hide from the immune system and affect it in many ways. Because of th...

News Feature: Is video game addiction really an addiction?

Impulsiveness in Alcohol Addiction and Pathological Gambling

Correspondence to: Davor Bodor, md, Psychiatric hospital “Sveti Ivan”, Jankomir 11, 10090 Zagreb, Croatia, E-mail: [email protected] Copyright © 2015 KBCSM, Zagreb e-mail: [email protected] • www.http//hrcak.srce.hr/acoholism Summary: Numerous conducted studies, as well as the daily clinical experience, proves the importance of the role that impulsiveness plays in the clinical cours...

Equasy-- an overlooked addiction with implications for the current debate on drug harms.