Network-Based Analysis Reveals Functional Connectivity Related to Internet Addiction Tendency.

ABSTRACT: Preoccupation and compulsive use of the internet can have negative psychological effects, such that it is increasingly being recognized as a mental disorder. The present study employed network-based statistics to explore how whole-brain functional connections at rest is related to the extent of individual's level of internet addiction, indexed by a self-rated questionnaire. We identified two topologically significant networks, one with connections that are positively correlated with internet addiction tendency, and one with connections negatively correlated with internet addiction tendency. The two networks are interconnected mostly at frontal regions, which might reflect alterations in the frontal region for different aspects of cognitive control (i.e., for control of internet usage and g

SUBMITTER: Wen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4740778 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature