A nurse at the Save Brain Clinic explaining illustrations of brain scans at Gongju National Hospital in Gongju. The clinic styles itself as South Korea’s first specialist clinic offering treatment for the hundreds of thousands of officially recognised as internet addicts in the world’s most wired nation. The clinic offers a five-week treatment programme including group sessions, art therapy, medicine and processes known as neurofeedback and transcranial magnetic stimulation.

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