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, Vancampfort, Davy, Armitage, Christopher J., Sarris, Jerome·2019·World Psychiatry

DOI 10.1002/wps.20617

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