The first step toward determining your risk for a smartphone behavioural addiction is awareness. If you have any reason to believe that you may be at risk, take a few minutes to complete this ...

According to University of British Columbia neuroethics professor Peter Reiner, the feelings our phones give us are a product of our growing reliance on — and addiction to — the technology.

While her eight-year-old still doesn’t have a phone, she bought her 11-year-old a smartphone when he started to go out by himself. It has a screen plan that automatically shuts down after 8pm to ...

Are you addicted to your smartphone? In British Columbia, more than one in four people between the ages of 18 and 34 say they can’t live without it. That’s among the findings of an online poll ...

Smartphones, eh? Canadians are addicted Not only is smartphone ownership way up in Canada, users are getting increasingly addicted to their mobile devices, suggests a new report released by Google.

If you need to take a picture of your food at every meal, or can’t go a minute without checking your social media notifications, you may be addicted to your smartphone.

Problematic smartphone use hasn’t been officially classified as an addiction in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the reference book used by mental health professionals ...

A research study on Computers in Human Behaviour investigated how cutting down smartphone use affects brain chemistry. In the experiment, young adults were requested to perform a 72-hour ...

How to quit your smartphone addiction, guided by science Deutsche Welle / Jul 22, 2025, 09:30 IST How to quit your smartphone addiction, guided by science (Image: AP) ...