Introduction It has been hypothesized that two distinctive forms of Internet addiction exist.
Here, generalized Internet addiction refers to the problematic use of the Internet covering a …

Findings from twin studies yield heritability estimates of 0.50 for prosocial behaviours like
empathy, cooperativeness and altruism. First molecular genetic studies underline the influence …

Jeffrey Gray's Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) represents one of the most influential
biologically-based personality theories describing individual differences in approach and …

Introduction. Research on empathy has a long tradition in clinical research, as deficits in
empathy have been found in many mental disorders. Over decades, a large amount of …

Perspective-taking has become a main focus of studies on moral judgments. Recent fMRI
studies have demonstrated that individual differences in brain activation predict moral decision …

The present study focuses on the neurostructural foundations of the human personality. In a
large sample of 227 healthy human individuals (168 women and 59 men), we used MRI to …

In the recent past, various intrinsic connectivity networks (ICN) have been identified in the
resting brain. It has been hypothesized that the fronto‐parietal ICN is involved in attentional …

A recent study has implicated the nucleus accumbens of the ventral striatum in explaining
why online-users spend time on the social network platform Facebook. Here, higher activity of …

Previous work from Germany and Austria highlighted the importance of personality and
excessive private Internet usage for Internet Addiction (IA). In a cross-cultural approach we tried …

Recent studies from Asia provided first evidence for a molecular genetic link between serotonergic
and dopaminergic neurotransmission and Internet addiction. The present report offers …