Annotated Bibliography

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Psychguides.com is an informative website that offers help to all sorts of mental health disorders. They are sponsored by Sovereign Health, which is a group that offers treatment to addiction and mental health treatment for all ages in the USA. This website informs people about psychological disorders so that people can recognize and understand these disorders. Their guides provide insight into these disorders so that people can learn about them and how to manage them. This website helped me learn about video game addiction and all the ways you can treat it. It was extremely informative with talking about the causes, effects, symptoms, types of game addiction, different treatments, and phone numbers on who to contact to get help. The type of readers that would be interested in this website are those who want information on any type of disorder and treatment options.

"Escitalopram Oxalate Oral : Uses, Side Effects, Interactions, Pictures, Warnings & Dosing - WebMD." WebMD. WebMD. Web. 13 Feb. 2016.

Webmd.com offers expertise in medicine and health information. The chief medical editor is Michael Smith and is in charge of overseeing the website alone with the help of other medical editors. Michael Smith graduated from Mercer University School of Medicine, is a member of the American College of Physicians and the Health Leaders Media Council, volunteers at the Good Samaritan Health Center in Atlanta where he sees patients, and has written articles on health. This website has a lot to offer like health news, communities, live web events user experience, interactive tools, and credible health information. They do a great job in delivering important information in a causal tone so that anyone can understand the articles. This website allowed me to understand the medication treatment options that are for video game addiction. It let me get an insight on how medicine can help the brain when someone is addicted. The type of readers that would be attracted to this website are those who want medical information or want to know about medicine.

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Gelsinger, Carly. "An Ex-video-game Addict Shares His Story, and a Way out."

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Gentile, Douglas A., Hyekyung Choo, Albert Liau, Timothy Sim, Dongdong Li, Daniel Fung, and Angeline Khoo. "Pathological Video Game Use Among Youths: A Two-Year Longitudinal Study." Pediatrics 127.2 (2011). Web. 22 Jan. 2016.

Douglas, Hyekung, Albert, Timothy, Dongdong, Daniel, and Angeline wrote about their 2-year study on video games among the youth. All of these authors have PhDs in the department of psychology, sciences, social work, education, or mental health at different universities. These doctors used this study to study the problem of gaming and whether or not it is a problem. They included charts that show their results so that it could be easier to understand. They came to the conclusion that the more gaming a child is involved in then the more it would negatively affect them. This study helped me with my research on video game addiction because it supported all the facts about how bad video game addiction is to kids. This study is helpful to other people who want to know about the negative affects of video games addiction.

Han, Douglas Hyun, Nicolas Bolob, Melissa A. Daniels, Lynn Arenella, and Perry F. Renshaw. "Brain Activity and Desire for Internet Video Game Play." Comprehensive Psychiatry 52.1 (2011): 100. Web. 21 Jan. 2016.

Doug, Nicolas, Melissa, Lynn, In Kyoon, and Perry are the authors of this study on how video game addiction is related to other addictions. These doctors have their PhD in psychiatry, medicine, natural science, or the brain. In this study they found out that video game addiction stimulated the same parts of the brain like any other addiction. They also provided images on what areas the brain was affected so that readers could get a better sense of the information they were talking about. This study supported my argument on how video game addiction is serious and just like any other addiction. People who may think this study is useful are those who do not think video game addiction is a real addiction or those who want more information on how addiction stimulates the brain.

Hauge, Marny R., and Douglas A. Gentile. "Http://www.ijalel.org/pdf/573.pdf." Video Game Addiction Among Adolescents: Associations with Academic Performance and Aggression (2013). Web. 21 Jan. 2016.

Kuss, Daria J. "Internet Gaming Addiction: Current Perspectives." Psychology Research

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Naoko Koezuka, Malcom Koo, Kenneth R. Allison, Edward M. Adalf, John Dwyer, Guy Faulkner, and Jack Goodman. "The Relationship between Sedentary Activities and Physical Inactivity Among Adolescents: Results from the Canadian Community Health Survey." Journal of Adolescent Health 39.4 (2006). Web. 23 Jan. 2016.

Soper, Barlow W., and Mark J. Miller. "Junk-Time Junkies: An Emerging Addiction

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"The Birth of Video Games and Computer Games: The Late 1940s and 1950s." The

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"What to Do When You Can’t Afford Therapy." World of Psychology. Web. 05 Mar.

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