positive association of video game playing with left frontal….pdf

Positive Association of Video Game Playing with Left Frontal Cortical Thickness in Adolescents Simone Ku ¨ hn 1,2,3 *, Robert Lorenz 2, Tobias Banaschewski 4, Gareth J. Barker 5, Christian Bu ¨chel 6 , Patricia J. Conrod 5, Herta Flor 7, Hugh Garavan 8, Bernd Ittermann 3, Eva Loth 5, Karl Mann 9, Frauke Nees 7 , Eric Artiges 10,11 , Tomas Paus 12,13,14 , Marcella Rietschel 15, Michael N. Smolka 16,17 , Andreas Stro ¨ hle 1 , Bernadetta Walaszek 3, Gunter Schumann 6, Andreas Heinz 2,Ju ¨rgen Gallinat 2,18 , The IMAGEN Consortium 1Ghent University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology and Ghent Institute for Functional and Me tabolic Imaging, Ghent, Belgium, 2Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charite ′University Medicine, St Hedwig Krankenhaus, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany, 3Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Berlin and Braunschweig, Germany, 4Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany, 5Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, 6Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, 7Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany, 8Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 9Department of Addictive Behaviour and Addiction Medicine