Jesús Castro-Calvo, Daniel L King, Dan J Stein, Matthias Brand, Lior Carmi, Samuel R Chamberlain, Zsolt Demetrovics, Naomi A Fineberg, Hans-Jürgen Rumpf, Murat Yücel, Sophia Achab, Atul Ambekar, Norharlina Bahar, Alexander Blaszczynski, Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Xavier Carbonell, Elda Mei Lo Chan, Chih-Hung Ko, Philippe de Timary, Magali Dufour, Marie Grall-Bronnec, Hae Kook Lee, Susumu Higuchi, Susana Jimenez-Murcia, Orsolya Király, Daria J Kuss, Jiang Long, Astrid Müller, Stefano Pallanti, Marc N Potenza, Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar, John B Saunders, Adriano Schimmenti, Seung-Yup Lee, Kristiana Siste, Daniel T Spritzer, Vladan Starcevic, Aviv M Weinstein, Klaus Wölfling, Joël Billieux
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Following the recognition of 'internet gaming disorder' (IGD) as a condition requiring further study by the DSM-5, 'gaming disorder' (GD) was officially included as a diagnostic entity by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). However, the proposed diagnostic criteria for gaming disorder remain the subject of debate, and there has been no systematic attempt to integrate the views of different groups of experts...
January 15, 2021: Addiction