Functional magnetic resonance imaging of internet addiction in young adults
Gianna Sepede, Margherita Tavino, Rita Santacroce, Federica Fiori, Rosa Maria Salerno, Massimo Di Giannantonio
Gianna Sepede, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neurosciences and Sense Organs, University “A. Moro”, 70121 Bari, Italy
Gianna Sepede, Margherita Tavino, Rita Santacroce, Federica Fiori, Rosa Maria Salerno, Massimo Di Giannantonio, Department of Neuroscience, Imaging, and Clinical Sciences, University “G.d’Annunzio”, 66100 Chieti, Italy
Author contributions: Sepede G, Salerno RM and Di Giannantonio M designed the research; Sepede G, Tavino M, Santacroce R and Fiori F performed the PubMed research, selected the papers included in the qualitative review and summarized the results; Sepede G, Salerno RM and Di Giannantonio M wrote the paper; Santacroce R performed the language editing.
Supported by Department of Neuroscience, Imaging, and Clinical Sciences, University “G.d’Annunzio”, Chieti, Italy; Dr. Sepede’s post hoc grant has been funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement, No. 602450.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors do not report any conflict of interest. This paper reflects only the authors’ views and the European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Gianna Sepede, MD, PhD, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neurosciences and Sense Organs, University “A. Moro”, Piazza G. Cesare, 11, 70121 Bari, Italy. gsepede@libero.it
Telephone: +39-0871-3556901 Fax: +39-0871-3556930
Received: July 27, 2015
Peer-review started: July 30, 2015
First decision: October 30, 2015
Revised: December 4, 2015
Accepted: December 18, 2015
Article in press: December 21, 2015
Published online: February 28, 2016
Processing time: 213 Days and 23.3 Hours
