Effects of video game playing on cerebral blood flow in young adults: A SPECT study

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-72

  Chou, Yuan Hwa ^a   Yang, Bang Hung ^a   Hsu, Ju Wei ^a   Wang, Shyh Jen ^a   Lin, Chun Lung ^b   Huang, Kai Lin ^a   Chien Chang, Alice ^a   Lee, Shin Min ^c  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAOYUAN ARMED FORCES GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c Yuli Hospital Department of Health Taiwan   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulated cortex (ACC); Cerebral blood flow (CBF); Prefrontal cortex; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); Video games

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN PERFUSION; CINGULATE GYRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MICROCOMPUTER; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECREATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL GYRUS; VISUAL CORTEX; WERNICKE AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DITERPENES, CLERODANE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VIDEO GAMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875374039     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2012.10.002     Document Type: Article

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