Integrating psychological and neurobiological considerations regarding the development and maintenance of specific Internet-use disorders: An Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 71, Issue , 2016, Pages 252-266

  Brand, Matthias ^a,b   Young, Kimberly S ^c   Laier, Christian ^a   Wölfling, Klaus ^d   Potenza, Marc N ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b ERWIN L HAHN INSTITUTE FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING   (Germany)

^c ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f Yale University School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Cue reactivity; Executive functions; Inhibitory control; Internet addiction; Internet gaming disorder; Internet use disorders

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE BIAS; CONDITIONING; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRAVING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERACTION OF PERSON AFFECT COGNITION EXECUTION MODEL; INTERNET ADDICTION; MOOD; NEUROBIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; RESPONSE TIME; REVIEW; ADDICTION; GAMBLING; INTERNET; VIDEO GAME;

BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; COGNITION; GAMBLING; HUMANS; INTERNET; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84988024355     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.08.033     Document Type: Review

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