[Clinical and psychological features of people with internet dependence: experience of a pilot study].

Alexei Y Egorov S V Grechanyy N A Chuprova V A Soldatkin A N Yakovlev R D Ilyuk A E Nikolishin P A Ponizovskiy V B Vantey D I Gromyko N V Dolgikh N A Erofeyeva V V Pozdnyak A B Il'ichev J V Khutoryanskaya A A Egorov E A Magomedova Anastasia Nechaeva N V Pashkevich J V Semenova A A Sidorov V V Khanykov Andrey Alexandrovitch Kibitov Evgeny M Krupitsky Alexander Borisovitch Shmukler Alexander Olegovitch Kibitov

Published in: Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova (2020)

There were more people with secondary specialized education and unemployed in the main group. The family burden of addiction and psychiatric disorders did not differ in both groups, and the heredity of somatic diseases was lower in the IA group. In the IA group, a psychiatric diagnosis was made 9 times more often. The severity of affective and anxiety disorders was higher in the IA group, while the risk of psychosis was low that allows considering the symptoms of IA outside the framework of subpsychotic mental disorders. The features of the psychopathological symptoms of IA were: total «tension» of the psychopathological profile; a relatively uniform and slightly specific profile of psychopathological symptoms with a certain tendency to the prevalence of personality-related stress manifestations.

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