Combined reality therapy and mindfulness meditation decrease intertemporal decisional impulsivity in young adults with Internet gaming disorder

TL;DR: This systematic review provides an updated summary of the scientific literature on treatments for Internet gaming disorder and identified 22 studies evaluating treatments for IGD: 8 evaluating medication, 7 evaluating cognitive behavioral psychotherapy, and 7 evaluating other interventions and psychosocial treatments.

TL;DR: Mediation analysis supported the roles of self-esteem and social anxiety as mediators of the beneficial (lowering) effect of mindfulness on compulsive mobile SNS usage and confirmed that compulsiveMobile SNS use induces stress and mindfulness has also lowering effects on stress derived from such compulsive behavior, mediated by the former variables.

TL;DR: A more global pattern of key psychological characteristics associated with Internet gaming disorder in adolescence is suggested which may help in understanding the complexity of this proposed disorder and it may also help in designing more specialized interventions for adolescents with IGD.

TL;DR: It is suggested that IGD may be closely associated with depression; aberrant rsFC between emotion and executive control networks may underlie depression and represent a therapeutic target in individuals with IGD.

TL;DR: The difficulties inherent in obtaining consistent and adequate diagnoses for the purposes of research and therapy have been pointed out and a wide variety of psychiatric rating scales have been developed.

TL;DR: This chapter provides a brief critical overview of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

TL;DR: The Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview is designed to meet the need for a short but accurate structured psychiatric interview for multicenter clinical trials and epidemiology studies and to be used as a first step in outcome tracking in nonresearch clinical settings.