Assessing smartphone apps for stress relief: Mindfulness and problem-solving therapy may be more effective
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What happens in the minds of people who use the internet addictively? Prof. Dr. Matthias Brand from the University of Duisburg-Essen and his team want to find out. Since 2020, the scientists have searched for underlying psychological and neurobiological processes. They are now publishing their initial findings on self-control functions in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
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