Friday, May 25, 2012

How you use the internet or getting depressed show

The way you use the Internet to be determined if you have depressive symptoms, says researchers at the University «Missouri» found that students who show signs of depression are dealing with the Internet differently than their peers.According to the study, to be depressed more inclined to use the services of file sharing, as they are more commonly used for e-mail and messaging, and spend a long time in the «chat» more than their counterparts, in addition to that students use depressed the internet on a more random than others, where moving from one location to another and from one application to another, for example, in taking far «Chat Room» for a moment and then move on to the games and then to the e-mail without a constant that specifies the logic of that.Believed Dr «Chellappan» author of the study that «random» is one of the most important features of how depressed in the use of the Internet, and is attributed to the difficulty in focusing, which are usually associated with display Balmktib governs most of the details of his day.In addition, depressed tend to use the applications you need to beams and wide, ie, those that contain videos and games directly, with a rate much greater than those who do not show depressive symptoms.Says the author of the study: «results of our study provide a new look for the link between Internet use and depression compared to what preceded studies»He adds: «We believe it is the first study using real data on the use of the Internet has been collected unobtrusively to determine the link between the way Internet use and depression»To conduct this study, the researchers collected information on the monthly usage of the Internet for more than two hundred students at the University «Missouri», also conducted tests determine the symptoms of depression (if any) when these students - and they found that about a third of students living with symptoms of depressive their nuances minimum -, Finally, they analyze the information using the Internet among the participating students and compared them with depressive symptoms, and concluded that students who have shown signs of depression used the Internet in a different and special compared to the other participants in the study.The researchers believe that they can rely on the results of the study in the development of the application can be used in home computers to determine whether the method of using the Internet to show depressive symptoms, which will provide an easy and inexpensive in the diagnosis of depression.In addition, researchers believe that this method can help to diagnose other mental illnesses, Calfsam syndrome and attention deficit / hyperactivity, and bulimia and anorexia, as it «is also important to apply the results of this study in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders among other groups such as the elderly and veterans veterans in the army »says the author of the study.

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