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Internet addiction (IA), which is being debated as a formal diagnosis for the DSM and elsewhere, has been defined as a pathological, impairing pattern of preoccupation with Internet activities such as gaming, gambling, pornography, streaming video, and surfing for random information. These investigators randomized 143 well-educated men (about half with mild–moderate comorbid depression) with various IA subtypes in Germany and Austria (mean age, 26) to a manual-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) designed for this condition (short-term treatment for Internet and computer game addiction [STICA]) or to a wait-list control (WLC).
STICA consisted of fifteen weekly 100-minute group sessions interspersed with eight 60-minute individual session…