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Gaceta Médica Boliviana
Print version ISSN 1012-2966On-line version ISSN 2227-3662
Abstract
BUSTOS CISNEROS, David and BUSTOS CISNEROS, Edgar. Dependence at internet: A special case. Gac Med Bol [online]. 2010, vol.33, n.1, pp.59-62. ISSN 1012-2966.
With the development of Internet and global growth have also appeared the first cases of network-related psychopathology. The disorder dependence of the network is becoming a mental health problem, while not diagnosed because they are not classified in the diagnostic manuals and international classification of mental illnesses, the first event attended by all the characteristics associated with pathological gambling dependency, maladaptive patterns which carries a clinically significant impairment or distress, expressed in a decrease in the size of your social circle and an increase in their depression and loneliness.
Keywords : Internet addiction.