Advert saliency distracts children's visual attention during task-oriented internet use.

The general research question of the present study was to assess the impact of visually salient online adverts on children's task-oriented internet use. In order to answer this question, an experimental study was constructed in which 9- and 12-year-old Swedish children were asked to solve a number of tasks while interacting with a mockup website. In each trial, web adverts in several saliency conditions were presented.

[Internet-based cognitive-behavioral therapy in the treatment of psychiatric disorders].

Recent years have seen the development of Internet-based cognitive-behavioral therapy, i.e. psychological self-help program mediated via the Internet, the patient being in contact via e-mail with the support person directing the therapy.

[Treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder in an adult].

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a common, chronic and functionally incapacitating psychiatric disorder characterized by obsessive thoughts and compulsive acts. First-line drug therapy utilizes serotonin reuptake inhibitors at dosages that are usually higher and yield slower responses than those used in the treatment of major depression. Second generation antipsychotics or haloperidol may also be beneficial.

[Cognitive psychotherapy of social phobia and generalized anxiety disorder].

Recent years have seen a better understanding of the psychological changes underlying social phobia and generalized anxiety disorder, and successful methods of cognitive psychotherapy have been developed. Exposure to social situations causing anxiety and cognitive restructuring has diminished social anxiety. An underlying factor in generalized anxiety disorder is, among other things, a difficulty to deal with and tolerate uncertainty.