Association of Excessive Social Media Use with Abnormal White Matter Integrity of the Corpus Callosum

The use of social media sites can excite the reward centers of the brain (Meshi et al., 2013; Meshi et al., 2015). Hence, some people may develop excessive use patterns that may provide immediate reinforcing rewards but be disadvantageous in the long-run, and infringe users' normal functioning (Montag et al., 2017; Montag et al., 2018). Excessive social media use (ESMU) is defined as an excessive behavioral pattern of social media use that has adverse effects on individuals by producing addiction-like symptoms, including salience, withdrawal, mood modification, relapse, conflict, and tolerance" (He et al., 2017b).

Source: Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging - July 2, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Qinghua He, Ofir Turel, Antoine Bechara Source Type: research