http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Cell phone and instant messaging addictions are driven by materialism and impulsiveness and can be compared to consumption pathologies like compulsive buying and credit card misuse, according to a Baylor University study in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-cell-addiction-similar-compulsive-credit.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:28:56 EST news273331720