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The Gambling, Gaming & Technology Use Community of Interest brings together addiction and mental health service providers, researchers and subject matter experts in the fields of gambling, technology/Internet use and video gaming to collaborate and share knowledge on emerging trends and clinical best practices.

I found this video interesting because it doesn't just touch on what is happening in our brains that is changing due to phone use, but it also talks about the change in our physical appearance due to phone use.

I found the very first fact very interesting that out of the 7 billion people on earth 6 billion have a phone and only 4.5 billion have access to a toilet. This also made me wonder if these were mobile phones or if this was also regular phones as I felt this number was rather high.

I am also a huge fan of our sleep cycles, I enjoyed how they talked about the change in sleep habits due to phone use as not many people think about proper sleep hygiene.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6CBb3yX9Zs

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Thanks for sharing this quick video!  I just read a study "Toward a delineation of the differences between high engagement and problem gaming" which found the strongest protective factor between highly engaged and problematic video gaming was that of the ability to balance gaming with sleep needs.  Sleep is so important to how we manage our day to day lives.

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