Orbitofrontal gray matter deficits as marker of Internet gaming disorder: converging evidence from a cross-sectional and prospective longitudinal design

Addiction Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 100-109

  Zhou, Feng ^a   Montag, Christian ^a,b   Sariyska, Rayna ^b   Lachmann, Bernd ^b   Reuter, Martin ^c   Weber, Bernd ^c,d   Trautner, Peter ^c   Kendrick, Keith M ^a   Markett, Sebastian ^c   Becker, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

brain structure; Internet addiction Internet gaming disorder; orbitofrontal cortex; prospective design

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GAME ADDICTION; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ADDICTION; BRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; INTERNET; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VIDEO GAME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; INTERNET; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VIDEO GAMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85058887513     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/adb.12570     Document Type: Article

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