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Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Medical Informatics

Date Submitted: Nov 2, 2025
Open Peer Review Period: Nov 2, 2025 - Dec 28, 2025
Date Accepted: Jul 8, 2026
(closed for review but you can still tweet)

The final, peer-reviewed published version of this preprint can be found here:

Effects of Social Media Use on Brain Dynamics in Young Male Adults: Multistage Concurrent Electroencephalography–Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

Bai K, Wu BJ, Wang ZZ, Cao XJ, Dou JQ, Jiang XY, Zhao SS, Chen ZH, Li YT, Shang YX, Yang G, Han Y, Feng XL, Hu B, Wang W, Zhou TX

Effects of Social Media Use on Brain Dynamics in Young Male Adults: Multistage Concurrent Electroencephalography–Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

JMIR Med Inform 2026;14:e86963

DOI: 10.2196/86963

PMID: 42561423

Warning: This is an author submission that is not peer-reviewed or edited. Preprints - unless they show as "accepted" - should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.

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