Why I Specialize In Video Game Addiction

Dr. Kanojia works at the world’s top medical institutions including Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.

More importantly, he is a gamer who almost failed out of college. He graduated with a 2.5 GPA, got his own gaming habits under control, went on to do his psychiatry residency through Harvard Medical School. During his training, Dr. Kanojia noticed a lack of academic knowledge of video gaming addiction. Because the brightest minds in psychiatry are also of a different generation than the vast majority of video gamers, Dr. Kanojia set out to create a body of knowledge himself.

He interviewed hundreds of gamers and created extensive psychiatric profiles of gamers that now can be used to inform treatment plans.