This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 71%. (I'm a bot)The study involved 19 young people diagnosed with internet or smartphone addiction and 19 gender- and age-matched healthy controls.Researchers used standardized internet and smartphone addiction tests to measure the severity of internet addiction.The researchers performed MRS exams on the addicted youth prior to and following behavioral therapy and a single MRS study on the control patients to measure levels of gamma aminobutyric acid, or GABA, a neurotransmitter in the brain that inhibits or slows down brain signals, and glutamate-glutamine, a neurotransmitter that causes neurons to become more electrically excited.Previous studies have found GABA to be involved in vision and motor control and the regulation of various brain functions, including anxiety.Dr. Seo said the ratios of GABA to creatine and GABA to glutamate were significantly correlated to clinical scales of internet and smartphone addictions, depression and anxiety.More study is needed to understand the clinical implications of the findings, but Dr. Seo believes that increased GABA in the anterior cingulate gyrus in internet and smartphone addiction may be related to the functional loss of integration and regulation of processing in the cognitive and emotional neural network.Summary Source | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: GABA#1 smartphone#2 addiction#3 internet#4 study#5Post found in /r/news, /r/NoFap, /r/technology, /r/NoFilterNews and /r/TheNewsFeed.NOTICE: This thread is for discussing the submission topic. Please do not discuss the concept of the autotldr bot here.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 71%. (I'm a bot)
The study involved 19 young people diagnosed with internet or smartphone addiction and 19 gender- and age-matched healthy controls.
Researchers used standardized internet and smartphone addiction tests to measure the severity of internet addiction.
The researchers performed MRS exams on the addicted youth prior to and following behavioral therapy and a single MRS study on the control patients to measure levels of gamma aminobutyric acid, or GABA, a neurotransmitter in the brain that inhibits or slows down brain signals, and glutamate-glutamine, a neurotransmitter that causes neurons to become more electrically excited.
Previous studies have found GABA to be involved in vision and motor control and the regulation of various brain functions, including anxiety.
Dr. Seo said the ratios of GABA to creatine and GABA to glutamate were significantly correlated to clinical scales of internet and smartphone addictions, depression and anxiety.
More study is needed to understand the clinical implications of the findings, but Dr. Seo believes that increased GABA in the anterior cingulate gyrus in internet and smartphone addiction may be related to the functional loss of integration and regulation of processing in the cognitive and emotional neural network.
Summary Source | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: GABA#1 smartphone#2 addiction#3 internet#4 study#5
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