Sitting in front of the computer

Sitting in front of the computer, concentrate on playing the game, a play that is ten hours. Parents will dye his Internet addiction for many years into the "save the brain clinic" in the hope kick the addiction. This clinic opened in early May this year, is located 120 km south of Seoul at the state psychiatric hospital public hospital, is South Korea's first specialized addiction treatment clinics, mainly for young people, also receives an adult.

Clinic First through questionnaires, brain image scans and psychological tests to determine whether the dye Internet addiction treatment.

If confirmed, the clinic offers a five-week treatment program, including on the collective lessons, art therapy, drug therapy, supplemented by neural feedback and transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Neural feedback with the cerebral cortex of brain electrical activity rhythm instrument feedback will be out of training specific brain electrical activity to control the central nervous system activity. Transcranial magnetic stimulation, magnetic signal through the skull to stimulate the nerve cells for the treatment of depression.

Lee Jae clinics charge of $ (phonetic) told Agence France-Presse correspondent: "All the testing and treatment programs in line with science, has a proven efficacy."

Testing and treatment costs less than $ 1,800, if there is insurance, they need to pay about $ 585.

Lee Jae said that, although addiction is not included in scope of mental disorder, the problem in Korean society has "deep-rooted." South Korean government estimates that 4860 million people nationwide, about 200 million people have Internet addiction, in which 87.7 million people aged 9 to 19 years old.

Cui Xianmin wearing a gown, he said: "play online games fun, exciting, and gratifying, and I think is how to play when not being interrupted."

His addiction began 9 years old. Time to get the computer monitor, he punched the windows broke his parents' room; he was stealing money go to Internet cafes, and even play a few hours, hungry bowl of noodles.

Lee Jae said that, early last year, a 31-year-old man in Internet cafes playing games with 780 hours, only to pause when necessary, after the parents into the hospital.