title: [To define internet addiction].
abstract: Internet addiction is a new behavioral disorder difficult to define, especially when referring to young teenagers who make great use of web-mediated relationships. It's necessary to separate the cases of overt dependency on those in which the abuse of internet seems to have a different value, offering the only way to achieve the possible relationship. Internet is mediating a new way of communicating and thinking, this may favor the onset of clinical phenomena intended to surprise.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Psichiatria, USCS, Roma. f.tonioni@alice.it
authors.forename: Federico
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tonioni
mesh_terms: D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet