“…Recent studies of internet addiction using cue-induced functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have shown that internet addiction, substance abuse and pathologic gambling shared similar brain activity in responses to internet (Han et al, 2011;Han, Hwang & Renshaw, 2010;Yuan, Qin, Liu & Tian, 2011), substance (Franken, 2003;Maas et al, 1998;Wilson, Sayette & Fiez, 2004) and gambling cues (Crockford, Goodyear, Edwards, Quickfall & el-Guebaly, 2005;Goudriaan, de Ruiter, van den Brink, Oosterlaan & Veltman, 2010). For example, fMRI studies of game cue-induced brain activity have noted that excessive online game players show increased activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), anterior cingulate, nucleus accumbens, and caudate nucleus, relative to a healthy comparison group (Han et al, 2010;Ko et al, 2009).…”