Internet Addiction: A Clinical Disorder? - Judith Horstman Video

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/26/A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Your_Brain_Judith_Horstman

Author and journalist Judith Horstman outlines a chapter from her most recent book, Day in the Life of Your Brain. The chapter covers technology use and overuse, including the speculated relationship between screen time and attention span.

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What's your brain doing, right now? Award-winning journalist Judith Horstman writes about health and medicine for doctors as well as the general public. Her work has appeared in hundreds of publications worldwide and on the Internet.

Horstman discusses what your brain is doing as you go through a typical day: sleeping, waking, fighting, loving and making important decisions. - Commonwealth Club of California

Judith Horstman is an award-winning journalist who writes about health and medicine for doctors as well as the general public.

She has been a Washington correspondent, a journalism professor, a Fulbright scholar, and has written and edited in many media, including newspapers, newsletters, special health publications, radio, video, the Internet, annual reports and books.

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elphenom9: tl;dw

ZamatoElite: WTF!? OHHHHH, she said people are treating their ADD with speed! GET SCARED EVERYBODY!!! Internet life is superior to real life. Do I have an addiction? If so, I could GIVE A FUCK!!!!

isegoria1: Can you say Pavlov's dog? Repacking conditioned responses does not make it revolutionary.

aladinclip: you`re to streesed about it ! :) why grow that anger :) you can say it and be relaxed to :) cheers

adrian42583: Ok, so she's saying that, if we can't control our habits, it can be consider as a clinical disorder ?so coming out with a book, about a scientific day for your brain, that she had to observed people lives to write such book,(habit to judge others by watching) is not a clinical disorder? and on the other hand, did any one notice the audience ? MOST of the are old folks(judging by the hair)?I wonder why?do they not know how to use a PC? Can life get more ironic then the people preaching about it ?

willb128: f u granma

Shadizar666: What about tv knowledge channels, soap operas, blah blah how about the use of the telephone which could possibly a strictly female disorder or the need to prove oneself better than anyone else which could be a strictly male disorder what about the need to prove technology is "bad" which seems to be a strictly old person disorder when will compulsive education become a disorder???

grit123: technology is bad, mmmkay? "Not now! I have to get my fix."

Atheistprimate: "Self medicate with Technology" So what she is sour people are not sticking with over the counter drugs like in her day? Fuck this old hag.

Eugensdiet: I think if I'm going to listen to someone who is going to teach me about the brain I would like it to be a clinical doctor. Ms Hortsman isn't a doctor . It would seem to me that anything she wrote would be the equivalent of a high school science paper. The internet does a lot more good than harm. Children playing games learn confidence, improve motor skills and have the potential to learn a lot more about the world than sitting in front of a boob tube. She's just another nay sayer.

1RadicalOne: "Author and Award-Winning Journalist"... Those are commendable achievements, but not valid qualifications for diagnosis or definition of clinical or mental disorders.

sexdrugsRnR: pfff, old people.

eeedel: Her generation dropped the A-Bomb and shes complaining about the internet. Shut up grandma.

adeadlysniper: I would like to see her attempt to get a university degree today without the use of the internet. Now that would be a laugh. Fuckin old people...

mattghtpa: Why don't you just give granny the back of your pimp hand while you're at it?

mattghtpa: I agree, especially in that she seemed to willfully contradict herself. She notes that our brains are being affected. Well the data I read is probably similar to what she eludes too and it indicates it's for the better. But she refers to it as an addiction and clinical disorder. Really the answer is staring her right in the face, our brains are now conditioned to process and multi task more efficiently and what she calls ADHD is just an under utilized brain being bored.

eeedel: @mattghtpa nicely put

anthonzi: fail

scisex: It would not give off the same sense of frustration. L2internetz

aladinclip: Hy scisex :) I don`t think is necesary to work your way to a heart atack...to say what you think about somenthing:) cheers

PEinHK: It's not internet additction; I just need to spend so much time clicking through 50 Fora videos on pop psychology to get to one interesting one on politics or economics!

Mrmoc7: Calling everything slightly unpleasant a disorder: An academic disorder?

oayia: this video is on the internet grammy

AtheistKharm: wow its like hearing my grandma preach about the evil internet.

topheramazz: it seem these days that everything people do now is some kind of behavioral disorder. and then the pahrmacutical company comes up with some drug to supress or midify oue behavior? i love the internet and i learn so much with regard to "education"- but i do beleive that nature is where true knowledge is attained. whats needed is balance and for psychiatrists to stop classifying people every time some "neurosis" pops up.

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