New diagnosis needed for problem gaming, say researchers

Credit: Alexander Kovalev from Pexels University of Queensland researchers are suggesting that a new diagnosis should be added to the official world diseases list to better identify those with gaming disorders. Honorary Professor John Saunders from UQ’s National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research said a review of the current range of diagnoses found there was a missing “middle ground” on the problem gaming spectrum in the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases. The research was published in Current Opinion in Psychiatry. “In the current classifications, Hazardous Gaming identifies Read More

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