Video Game Addiction (MyModernHealth FAQs) - Softcover

Olle, David A.; Westcott, Jean Riescher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937585824 ISBN 13: 9781937585822

Publisher: Mercury Learning and Information, 2018

Synopsis

This book addresses the history, symptoms, causes, and available treatment for "video game overuse." It examines numerous case studies and provides resources from several countries including the US, China, South Korea, and the UK.

Features
• Questions and answers about the medical definition/description of the condition; the source/causes; details of symptoms; available cure/treatment; and societal issues or public opinion such as legal issues, social/psychological ramifications, etc.
• Case studies from both the physician and patient perspectives
• Animations, figures, and photos to support, explain topics under discussion. In electronic versions these items are integrated as hyperlinks and “pop-ups” throughout the text
• Resources including Web sites, articles, blogs, and books that offer additional information on each subject

About this title

About the Authors

David Olle is a freelance medical and science writer. He has a varied background, including literature searches, professional book reviewing, writing essays for encyclopedias, articles for online organizations, and maintaining a website. This is his fifth book on medical topics.

Jean Riescher Westcott is the co-author of Basic Electronics, 4th Edition; Industrial Automation and Robotics, 1st Edition; and Video Game Addiction.

Together Jean and Sean Westcott have written Digitally Daunted: The Consumer’s Guide to the Technology in Your Life and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Electronics 101.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mercury Learning and Information
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1937585824
• ISBN 13: 9781937585822
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 108