The “online brain”: How the Internet may be changing our cognition

Firth, Joseph, Torous, John, Stubbs, Brendon, Firth, Josh A., Steiner, Genevieve Z., Smith, Lee, Alvarez‐Jimenez, Mario, Gleeson, John +3 more·2019·World Psychiatry
DOI 10.1002/wps.20617

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