Brains online: Structural and functional correlates of habitual Internet use

Addiction Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 415-422

  Kühn, Simone ^a   Gallinat, Jürgen ^b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioural addiction; frontal pole; grey matter; Internet addiction; ventral striatum; voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CORPUS STRIATUM; FAMILY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; INTERNET ADDICTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ADDICTION; BRAIN; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; INTERNET; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VENTRAL STRIATUM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; BRAIN; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; INTERNET; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; VENTRAL STRIATUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922965611     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/adb.12128     Document Type: Article

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