Positive association of video game playing with left frontal cortical thickness in adolescents.

Positive association of video game playing with left frontal cortical thickness in adolescents.

Playing video games is a common recreational activity of adolescents. Recent research associated frequent video game playing with improvements in cognitive functions. Improvements in cognition have been related to grey matter changes in prefrontal cortex. However, a fine-grained analysis of human br...

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Main Authors: Simone Kühn, Robert Lorenz, Tobias Banaschewski, Gareth J Barker, Christian Büchel, Patricia J Conrod, Herta Flor, Hugh Garavan, Bernd Ittermann, Eva Loth, Karl Mann, Frauke Nees, Eric Artiges, Tomas Paus, Marcella Rietschel, Michael N Smolka, Andreas Ströhle, Bernadetta Walaszek, Gunter Schumann, Andreas Heinz, Jürgen Gallinat, IMAGEN Consortium
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3954649?pdf=render

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