Daniel Tornaim Spritzer

@ufrgs.br

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psiquiatria e Ciências do Comportamento
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Psychiatry and Mental health
24

Scopus Publications

2187

Scholar Citations

15

Scholar h-index

21

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Banning loot boxes for minors: A public health framework and the case of Brazil
    DT Spritzer, I Fortim, TH Roza, FHP Kessler, HS Kim
    Journal of Behavioral Addictions 15 (1), 5-7 , 2026
    2026
  • Criminal Responsibility in Individuals with Gambling Disorder in Brazil
    TH Roza, DT Spritzer, CS Madruga, FHP Kessler, LE de Borba Telles
    Journal of Gambling Studies, 1-6 , 2026
    2026
  • A Synthesis of Treatment Practices, Facilitations, and Barriers in Treatment of Behavioural Disorders Associated with Gaming Platforms and Excessive Internet Use in Six Countries
    S Achab, SA Arroyave, J Long, D Spritzer, YPS Balhara, KA Tan, ...
    Preprints , 2026
    2026
  • Problem gambling in Brazil: Prevalence, patterns, and emerging challenges
    D Spritzer, C Madruga, R Laranjeira, K Isikawa, A Goldman, R Pereira, ...
    JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL ADDICTIONS 14 , 2025
    2025
  • Experience report: Mental health interventions during the 2024 floods in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
    JCM Narvaez, SG Câmara, TR Gonçalves, DC Levandowski, DT Spritzer, ...
    International Journal of Social Psychiatry 71 (7), 1305-1319 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Early childhood screen use and symptoms of problematic media use
    C Fitzpatrick, MA Binet, DT Spritzer, GA Tiraboschi, SE Domoff, ...
    Journal of Behavioral Addictions 14 (3), 1411-1418 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • A Cross-cultural exploration of problematic internet use, pathological personality traits, defense mechanisms, coping strategies, and self-esteem in 14 countries
    S Laconi, A Kalaitzaki, DT Spritzer, S Hauck, A Gnisci, I Sergi, Z Vally, ...
    Annales Médico-psychologiques, revue psychiatrique 183 (4), 400-406 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 13
  • O uso de jogos digitais no tratamento de crianças e adolescentes com transtorno do espectro autista: uma revisão crítico-narrativa
    MV Teles, DT Spritzer
    Revista Brasileira de Psicoterapia 26 (3) , 2025
    2025
  • Associations between preschooler screen time trajectories and the development of problematic media use
    C Fitzpatrick, MA Binet, D Spritzer, H Tavares
    JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL ADDICTIONS 13, 127-127 , 2024
    2024
  • The prevalence and predictors of problematic mobile phone use: A 14-country empirical survey
    A Kalaitzaki, S Laconi, DT Spritzer, S Hauck, A Gnisci, I Sergi, Z Vally, ...
    International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction 22 (1), 746-765 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 47
  • Validation of the Ten-Item Internet Gaming Disorder Test (IGDT-10) and its association with functional impairment in Brazilian gamers
    DT Spritzer, WL Machado, MB Yates, O Király, Z Demetrovics, J Billieux, ...
    Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy 46, e20230622 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • ONTOGD-An ontology-driven conceptual model for Gaming Disorder.
    MDG Da Silva Teixeira, H Tavares, M RODRIGUES GONÇALVES, ...
    Journal of Behavioral Addictions 12 , 2023
    2023
  • The Self-perception of Text message Dependence Scale (STDS): A Brazilian-Portuguese validation and expansion of its psychometric properties
    DT Spritzer, ALM Andrade, AZ Xavier, GT da Silva, HS Kim, ...
    Current Psychology 42 (21), 17670-17681 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 23
  • Depression in mothers at childhood: Direct and indirect association with problematic gaming in late adolescence/young adulthood
    TH Roza, FD Rabelo-da-Ponte, DT Spritzer, MS Hoffmann, R Massuda, ...
    Journal of psychiatric research 159, 14-21 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 13
  • Crianças bem conectadas: como o uso consciente da tecnologia pode se tornar um aliado da família e da escola
    A Restano, B Bueno, D Spritzer, J Potter, L Moreira
    Maquinaria Editorial , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 3
  • ONTOGD-An ontology-driven conceptual model for Gaming Disorder
    MDGDS TEIXEIRA, H TAVARES, MR GONCALVES, DT SPRITZER, ...
    AKADEMIAI KIADO ZRT , 2023
    2023
  • Gaming disorder and problematic use of social media
    TH Roza, LT Noronha, MA Makrakis, DT Spritzer, A Gadelha, FHP Kessler, ...
    Digital Mental Health: A Practitioner's Guide, 237-253 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 12
  • Psychometric properties of the smartphone addiction inventory-short form (SPAI-SF) in Brazilian adolescents
    ALM Andrade, DT Spritzer, A Scatena, B de Oliveira Pinheiro, GT da Silva, ...
    Psychiatry Research 319, 115001 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 26
  • Mental health help-seeking among Brazilian medical students: Who suffers unassisted?
    TM Bastos, DB Bumaguin, VR Astolfi, AZ Xavier, MS Hoffmann, F Ornell, ...
    International Journal of Social Psychiatry 68 (6), 1203-1212 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 11
  • Exploration interculturelle de l'utilisation problématique d'Internet, des traits pathologiques de personnalité, des défenses, du coping et de l'estime de soi dans 14 pays
    S Laconi, A Kalaitzaki, DT Spritzer, S Hauck, A Gnisci, I Sergi, Z Vally, ...
    Annales Medico-Psychologiques , 2022
    2022

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Gaming disorder: Its delineation as an important condition for diagnosis, management, and prevention
    JB Saunders, W Hao, J Long, DL King, K Mann, M Fauth-Bühler, ...
    Journal of behavioral addictions 6 (3), 271-279 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 605
  • Including gaming disorder in the ICD-11: The need to do so from a clinical and public health perspective: Commentary on: A weak scientific basis for gaming disorder: Let us err …
    HJ Rumpf, S Achab, J Billieux, H Bowden-Jones, N Carragher, ...
    Journal of behavioral addictions 7 (3), 556-561 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 417
  • Dependência de Internet e de jogos eletrônicos: uma revisão
    CN Abreu, RG Karam, DS Góes, DT Spritzer
    Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry 30, 156-167 , 2008
    2008
    Citations: 349
  • Expert appraisal of criteria for assessing gaming disorder: An international Delphi study
    J Castro‐Calvo, DL King, DJ Stein, M Brand, L Carmi, SR Chamberlain, ...
    Addiction 116 (9), 2463-2475 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 284
  • Precisamos falar sobre tecnologia: caracterizando clinicamente os subtipos de dependência de tecnologia
    F Picon, R Karam, V Breda, A Restano, A Silveira, D Spritzer
    Rev. Bras. Psicoter.(Online), 44-60 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 71
  • Exposure to electronic devices and sleep quality in adolescents: A matter of type, duration, and timing
    GH Caumo, D Spritzer, A Carissimi, AC Tonon
    Sleep health 6 (2), 172-178 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 69
  • Prevalence and correlates of gambling problems among a nationally representative sample of Brazilian adolescents
    DT Spritzer, LA Rohde, DB Benzano, RR Laranjeira, I Pinsky, M Zaleski, ...
    Journal of Gambling Studies 27 (4), 649-661 , 2011
    2011
    Citations: 50
  • The prevalence and predictors of problematic mobile phone use: A 14-country empirical survey
    A Kalaitzaki, S Laconi, DT Spritzer, S Hauck, A Gnisci, I Sergi, Z Vally, ...
    International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction 22 (1), 746-765 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 47
  • Hikikomori and the COVID-19 pandemic: not leaving behind the socially withdrawn
    TH Roza, DT Spritzer, A Gadelha, IC Passos
    Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry 43 (1), 114-116 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 33
  • Manual de teratogênese
    MTV Sanseverino, DT Spritzer, L Schuler-Faccini
    Porto Alegre: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 11-47 , 2001
    2001
    Citations: 29
  • Psychometric properties of the smartphone addiction inventory-short form (SPAI-SF) in Brazilian adolescents
    ALM Andrade, DT Spritzer, A Scatena, B de Oliveira Pinheiro, GT da Silva, ...
    Psychiatry Research 319, 115001 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 26
  • Dependência de jogos eletrônicos em crianças e adolescentes
    VCT Breda, FA Picon, LM Moreira, DT Spritzer
    Revista Brasileira de Psicoterapia 16 (1), 53-67 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 26
  • Multimodal treatment for a Brazilian case of hikikomori
    TH Roza, DT Spritzer, LM Lovato, IC Passos
    Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry 42 (4), 455-456 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 24
  • The Self-perception of Text message Dependence Scale (STDS): A Brazilian-Portuguese validation and expansion of its psychometric properties
    DT Spritzer, ALM Andrade, AZ Xavier, GT da Silva, HS Kim, ...
    Current Psychology 42 (21), 17670-17681 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 23
  • Dependência de jogos eletrônicos
    DT Spritzer, F Picon
    Abreu, CN, Eisenstein, E., Estefenon, SG Vivendo esse mundo digital … , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 16
  • Psychometric properties of the nine-item Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire in a Brazilian general population sample
    DT Spritzer, WL Machado, MB Yates, VR Astolfi, P Laskoski, C Pessi, ...
    Frontiers in psychiatry 12, 660186 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 15
  • A Cross-cultural exploration of problematic internet use, pathological personality traits, defense mechanisms, coping strategies, and self-esteem in 14 countries
    S Laconi, A Kalaitzaki, DT Spritzer, S Hauck, A Gnisci, I Sergi, Z Vally, ...
    Annales Médico-psychologiques, revue psychiatrique 183 (4), 400-406 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 13
  • Depression in mothers at childhood: Direct and indirect association with problematic gaming in late adolescence/young adulthood
    TH Roza, FD Rabelo-da-Ponte, DT Spritzer, MS Hoffmann, R Massuda, ...
    Journal of psychiatric research 159, 14-21 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 13
  • Dependência de internet: perspectivas em terapia cognitivo-comportamental
    CC Pujol, S Alexandre, A Sokolovsky, RG Karam, DT Spritzer
    Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry 31 (2), 185-186 , 2009
    2009
    Citations: 13
  • Gaming disorder and problematic use of social media
    TH Roza, LT Noronha, MA Makrakis, DT Spritzer, A Gadelha, FHP Kessler, ...
    Digital Mental Health: A Practitioner's Guide, 237-253 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 12