What clinicians need to know to treat problematic gaming, phone and social media use. Expert insights on Neuroscience and Cognition.

Online Gaming Panel: This panel discussion will provide expert insights on changes in neuroscience and cognition that occur from problematic gaming, phone and social media use. There will also be a focus on what clinicians should do within treatment for these presentations.

Webinar is free for the first 95 registrants, after that $5 fee added to cover webinar setup and access fees. Both options are set up now, so if you are happy to cover the $5 fee (much appreciated). 1 hour of CPD.  Links will be emailed the day before the panel. The recording will be available for the following fortnight. 

Panel

Dr Wayne Warburton is a Professor of developmental psychology at Macquarie University and is also a registered psychologist. His research centres on issues related to media use, aggression and behavioural addictions such as screen disorders. He is co-author of the books Growing Up Fast and Furious and The Importance of Media Literacy, and of several statements by international panels of experts on topics around media impacts on young people. His work and his RES@T-A Australia program were the subject of a touching Australian Story on the ABC that followed two wonderful teen boys with a screen disorder through the intervention program (March 6, 2023; https://iview.abc.net.au/video/NC2302Q002S00. Wayne has won more than 25 awards for his scholarship and teaching, including four from the Australian Psychological Society, and the 2018 Distinguished Scientific Contribution to Media Psychology and Technology Award from the American Psychological Association.

Mic Moshel is a PhD candidate at Macquarie University and a clinical neuropsychologist registrar, specialising in the cognitive impacts of screen-related disorders, including gaming addiction. His research explores how disordered gaming and screen use affect brain function and behavior, with findings published in leading journals such as Neuropsychology Review and the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Mic’s work has gained international recognition, featured on ABC News, Daily Telegraph, Cosmos, El Pais, The Conversation, and broadcast on ABC and 2SER radio. He is the recipient of an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship and a DAAD scholarship, which supported a nine-month research fellowship at the German Center for Addiction Research in Childhood and Adolescence (DZSKJ). Through both his clinical and academic work, Mic is passionate about helping individuals and communities better understand the cognitive risks of addictive gaming.

Dr Mark Williams is a professor of cognitive neuroscience, with over 25 years experience conducting behavioural and brain imaging research focusing on our social skills and how we learn. He has received numerous awards for teaching and research, taught neuroscience to a wide range of students, published more than 70 scientific articles, and worked at MIT (USA) and multiple universities in Australia. Dr Mark draws on his extensive scientific background to work with organisations to develop evidence-based practices using neuroscience to improve productivity, innovation and mental health. He regularly runs programs on the neuroscience of learning, the neuroscience of emotions, neuroscience of communication, how to hack your habits, how our brains create our reality, and the impact of modern technologies on our brains.Dr Mark’s new book “The Connected Species” is a #1 Best Seller and his work has been highlighted in the media both locally [e.g., Channel Ten, Channel 7, ABC, SkyNews, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age] and internationally [e.g., The Guardian, New York Times, Economist, New Scientist, Forbes].

Dr Danielle Einstein will Chair. She is a clinical psychologist and researcher focusing on how we respond to anxiety, worry and uncertainty in the digital age. In 2011, she developed a trans-diagnostic theory of uncertainty and introduced it in a Sydney pub talk for the AACBT. This theory was published in Clinical Psychology, Science and Practice. Her work translating this for psychologists, teachers and schools internationally, has led global recognition of the importance of 'embracing uncertainty' and being 'comfortably uncomfortable'. Drawing on her research with Australian schools, Dr Einstein was the first Australian clinical psychologist to question indiscriminate use of smartphones in teens and call for phone bans in schools. She wrote The Dip (2019), featured in the documentary Disconnect Me (2023); and co-authored Raising Anxiety: Why our good intentions are backfiring on children and how to fix it, which discusses how the perfect storm of popular approaches to caring for children are backfiring, together with Dr Judith Locke. In 2024, Dr Einstein played a leading role in shaping Australia’s social media minimum age legislation, using her own research and available published research to educate the public, colleagues and government. 

*Please note webinar is being run with minimal cost, no refunds will be offered if you are unavailable within the fortnight that it is available for.