Neurobiological risk factors for problematic social media use as a specific form of Internet addiction: A narrative review.

ABSTRACT: Problematic social media use (PSMU) is a behavioral addiction, a specific form of problematic Internet use associated with the uncontrolled use of social networks. It is typical mostly for modern adolescents and young adults, which are the first generations fully grown up in the era of total digitalization of society. The modern biopsychosocial model of the formation of behavioral addictions, postulating the impact of a large number of biological, psychological, and social factors on addictive behavior formation, may be quite applicable to PSMU. In this narrative review, we discussed neurobiological risk factors for Internet addiction with a focus on current evidence on the association between PSMU and structural/ functional characteristics of the brain and autonomic nervous system, neuroc

SUBMITTER: Tereshchenko SY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10251362 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature